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STS-71 Launch


The 100th U.S. human space launch had an on-time liftoff at 3:32:19.044 p.m. EDT, June 27, 1995, from Launch Pad 39A. The flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-71 was historic for another reason as well: It featured the first docking between the U.S. Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir. Atlantis carried an American-Russian crew: STS-71 Mission Commander Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson; STS-71 Pilot Charles J. Precourt; STS-71 Payload Commander Dr. Ellen S. Baker; STS-71 Mission Specialists Gregory J. Harbaugh and Bonnie J. Dunbar; and two Russian cosmonauts, Mir 19 Mission Commander Anatoly Y. Solovyev and Mir 19 Flight Engineer Nikolai M. Budarin. Budarin and Solovyev transfered to the space station and remained there, and the three crew members on Mir, U.S. astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard, Mir-18 Mission Commander Vladimir N. Dezhurov and Mir-18 Flight Engineer Gennadiy M. Strekalov, returned to Earth in Atlantis.
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