View of Spacelab in Atlantis Payload Bay
Docked with Russia's Mir Space Station, the space shuttle Atlantis' aft cargo bay and Spacelab science module are visible through a window on the Mir Space Station in this photo from July of 1995. The linkup enabled the seven STS-71 crew members to visit Mir and allowed the three Mir-18 crew members, in space since March of 1995, access to Spacelab. The science module was quite busy with tests and data collection until the end of the STS-71 mission. Atlantis touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on July 7, 1995.
STS-71 marked a number of historic firsts in human spaceflight: It was the 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from the Cape; first U.S. space shuttle-Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit up to that point; and first on-orbit changeout of a shuttle crew.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS071-741-057
Date: July 2, 1995
View of Spacelab in Atlantis Payload Bay
Docked with Russia's Mir Space Station, the space shuttle Atlantis' aft cargo bay and Spacelab science module are visible through a window on the Mir Space Station in this photo from July of 1995. The linkup enabled the seven STS-71 crew members to visit Mir and allowed the three Mir-18 crew members, in space since March of 1995, access to Spacelab. The science module was quite busy with tests and data collection until the end of the STS-71 mission. Atlantis touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on July 7, 1995.
STS-71 marked a number of historic firsts in human spaceflight: It was the 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from the Cape; first U.S. space shuttle-Russian Space Station Mir docking and joint on-orbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit up to that point; and first on-orbit changeout of a shuttle crew.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS071-741-057
Date: July 2, 1995