1995: Space Shuttle Flight 67 (STS-63) Discovery/Mir (NASA/RSA)

Space Shuttle flight 67 (STS-63) launched on 3 February 1995 and the crew was James D. Wetherbee, Eileen Collins, Michael Foale, Ph.D., Janice E. Voss, Ph.D., Bernard A. Harris, Jr., M.D., Vladimir G. Titov.

STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Programme, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launch pad 39B on February 3, 1995 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. A night launch and the 20th mission for Discovery, it marked the first time a Space Shuttle mission had a female pilot, Eileen Collins, and carried out the successful deployment and retrieval of the Spartan-204 platform, along with the scheduled rendezvous and flyaround of Mir, in preparation for STS-71, the first mission to dock with Mir.

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[BGSlopy]

funny american accent. Seriosly its good that now Russian and the USA as well EU are cooperating. Saves a lot of money .

[Jmcenanly]

It looked like a practice run for the ISS.