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First Shuttle-Mir Docking

Russia · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1995

Robert Lee Gibson29 June 1995

Mir · Science / Astronomy

Pilots Atlantis to the first Space Shuttle docking with Mir, beginning joint docked operations and the first shuttle exchange of a station crew.

Names involved

Robert Lee Gibson

Provenance

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