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    The ShuttleMir program was a collaborative 11-mission space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting...
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    STS-74 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    fourth mission of the US/Russian ShuttleMir program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir. Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy...
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    STS-71 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, STS-71 became the first Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir. STS-71 began on June 27...
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    STS-63 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission...
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    background info Information on problems aboard Mir Shuttle-Mir: Phase 1 Program Joint Report Mir Space Station (NASA) Portals: Spaceflight Outer space...
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    discarded Space Shuttle external tanks. Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. During the ShuttleMir program between 1994 and...
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    Soyuz TM-21 (redirect from Mir EO-18)
    and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, which was the first Increment of the Shuttle-Mir program. The three...
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    International Space Station. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. They did not have specific crew roles...
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    experience for later joint American–Russian space flights, such as the ShuttleMir program and the International Space Station. Apollo–Soyuz was the last crewed...
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    STS-76 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    22. The flight was the third Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, as part of the ShuttleMir program, carrying astronaut Shannon...
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    station Mir as part of the Shuttle-Mir Program. STS-71 marked a number of firsts in human spaceflight: 100th U.S. crewed space flight; first U.S. Shuttle-Russian...
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    of the Shuttle-Mir program. Launching on March 14, 1995, on Soyuz TM-21, he visited the Mir however he returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle mission...
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    the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in the construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS). The Space Shuttle fleet's...
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    known as the Mir Docking Module or SO, was the sixth module of the Russian space station Mir, launched in November 1995 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis...
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    through the Apollo-Soyuz mission which became the basis for the Shuttle-Mir program and eventually the International Space Station programme. Such international...
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    STS-91 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    STS-91 marked the final Shuttle/Mir Docking Mission, as well as the only such docking for Discovery. This Phase 1 Program was a precursor to the International...
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    Space Shuttle program, including resupply of the Mir space station, which was launched in 1986 and remained in service until 2001. When Mir was finally...
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    Interkosmos (category Interkosmos program)
    Interkosmos program, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union the ShuttleMir Program would follow in these footsteps in the mid-1990s and eventually pave...
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    One Space Shuttle mission ended with the destruction of the vehicle and death of the entire crew before reaching orbit. The Shuttle-Mir missions were...
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    personnel. The Shuttle-Mir program would continue until 1998, when a series of orbital accidents on the space station spelled an end to the program. In 2003...
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    competition also in space, by agreeing in 1993 on the ShuttleMir and International Space Station programs. Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented...
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    STS-60 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried Sergei K. Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle...
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    Michael Barratt (astronaut) (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    has played a role in developing NASA's space medicine programs for both the Shuttle-Mir Program and International Space Station. His first spaceflight...
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    Wendy B. Lawrence (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    the Russian Space Station Mir. She was a mission specialist on STS-114, the first Space Shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She is...
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    winged spacecraft such as the X-20 Dyna-Soar of the 1960s and the Space Shuttle of the 1970s. In the end, it was considered too complex and expensive to...
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  • the Space Shuttle as a European initiative akin to the reusable space vehicle programs of the Soviet Union's Buran and the US Space Shuttle. On 18 October...
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    Charles J. Precourt (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily...
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    the twin rudders it is similar in shape and operation to a small Space Shuttle Orbiter. TDV uses 600 or so heat resistant silica tiles and Flexible External...
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    in 1969, only to be restarted in 1974 in response to the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. The test vehicle made its first subsonic free-flight test in 1976...
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    The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which...
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