The primary objectives of this flight are to rendezvous and perform the 1st Shuttle docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station MIR. Other prime objectives are on-orbit joint United States-Russian life sciences investigations abord SPACELAB/MIR, logistical resupply of the MIR, recovery of US astronaut - Norman E. Thagard and the delivery of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to MIR.
STS-71 (69) Atlantis (14) Pad 39-A (54) 69th Shuttle Mission 100th US Manned launch 14th Flight OV-104 1st MIR Docking
Launch June 27, 3:32:19.044pm EDT.
Landing KSC July 7, 1995 at 10:54:34 am on Runway 15.
the landing sequence shown here is the one from the first columbia mission, not from sts-71
nhojohn 10 months ago