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    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, 1995, with the...
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    STS 71 is a fossilized skull of the species Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in Sterkfontein, South Africa by Robert Broom in 1947. In 1972...
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  • 2010. "STS-71-C". Encyclopedia Astronautica. 17 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010. "STS-71-F". Encyclopedia...
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    Group 9 in 1980. She flew in space five times, on the STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71 and STS-89, and trained in Russia as a cosmonaut. Dunbar left NASA...
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    STS-1 through STS-51-L. He served as Lead Data Processing Systems (DPS) Officer for STS-9 (Spacelab-1) and STS-41-D, Orbit DPS for STS-41-B and STS-41-C...
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    STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98 Mae Jemison – STS-47 Tamara Jernigan – STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96 Brent Jett – STS-72, STS-81, STS-97...
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  • Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81 Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110 Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol...
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    with the scheduled rendezvous and flyaround of Mir, in preparation for STS-71, the first mission to dock with Mir. Foale and Harris – EVA 1 EVA 1 Start:...
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    turnaround between flights in the history of the program. STS-70 had originally moved ahead of STS-71 because of a delay in the launch of the Russian Spektr...
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    without docking on STS-63. This was followed during the course of the project by nine Shuttle–Mir docking missions, from STS-71 to STS-91. The Shuttle rotated...
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    either launch or landing. STS-61-A in 1985 is the only flight to have both launched and landed with a crew of eight, and STS-71 in 1995 is the only other...
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    Station development. She was a mission specialist on STS-34 in 1989, STS-50 in 1992, and STS-71 in 1995 and has logged over 686 hours in space. She then...
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    reinforced carbon-carbon. During STS-37 in 1991, Atlantis deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Beginning in 1995 with STS-71, Atlantis made seven straight...
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    space — STS-29 (1989), STS-40 (1991) Ellen S. Baker — STS-34 (1989), STS-50 (1992), STS-71 (1995) Michael A. Baker — STS-43 (1991), STS-52 (1992), STS-68 (1994)...
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    Russian space station. The prior Shuttle-Mir missions were STS-71, STS-74, STS-76, STS-79 and STS-81. The U.S. astronauts launched and landed on a Shuttle...
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    TMA-21 Konstantin Borisov — SpaceX Crew-7 Nikolai Budarin — STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-27, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1 Valery Bykovsky (1934–2019) — Vostok 5, Soyuz...
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    in orbit: STS-2 (equipment failure), STS-35 (weather), STS-44 (equipment failure), and STS-83 (equipment failure, relaunched as STS-94). STS-300 was the...
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    specialist on STS-55 (April 26 to May 6, 1993), was the pilot on STS-71 (June 27 to July 7, 1995), and was the spacecraft commander on STS-84 (May 15–24...
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    August 1979. Gibson flew five missions: STS-41-B in 1984, STS-61-C in 1986, STS-27 in 1988, STS-47 in 1992, and STS-71 in 1995. Gibson served as Chief of the...
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  • STS-28, STS-41, STS-50, STS-64 Marianna: Norman Thagard — STS-7, STS-51-B, STS-30, STS-42, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71 Miami: Eric A. Boe — STS-126, STS-133...
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    STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally...
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    Space Shuttle Atlantis following the first Shuttle–Mir docking mission, STS-71.[page needed] Atlantis, launched on 27 June 1995, successfully docked with...
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    controllers in Russia supporting joint U.S./Russian Missions STS-63, STS-71, STS-74 and STS-76. Krikalev and Robert Cabana became the first people to enter...
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    Force (4 flights) STS-55 Columbia (German Spacelab Mission) STS-71 Atlantis (Shuttle-Mir Mission) STS-84 Atlantis (Shuttle-Mir Mission) STS-91 Discovery (Shuttle-Mir...
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    exchange. The shuttle's previous Mir missions were STS-71, STS-74, STS-76, STS-79, STS-81 and STS-84. Highlights of the 10-day mission include five days...
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    STS-67 was a human spaceflight mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on March 2, 1995. Astro-2 was the...
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    flights. Andrei Borisenko — Soyuz TMA-21 Nikolai Budarin — STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-27, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1 Valery Bykovsky — (1934–2019) — Vostok 5...
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    relay satellite (TDRS-F) deployment STS-71 Atlantis — June 1995 — Mission Specialist 1 — First Shuttle-Mir docking STS-82 Discovery — February 1997 — Mission...
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    Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. The first (STS-1) of four...
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    TM-21". Spacefacts. Retrieved 17 December 2017. "STS-71". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-70". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "Soyuz...
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