STS-71

Name: Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-71
Start: 1995-06-27T19:32:00+00:00
End: 1995-06-27T20:32:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39A

Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104

Lockheed Martin Space Operations

Launch Status

Success

Tue • Jun 27th, 1995
7:32 PM UTC

Crew

Robert L. Gibson

Status: Retired
10/30/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/3/1984
Last Flight: 6/27/1995

Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot who currently races regularly at the annual Reno Air Races.

Charles J. Precourt

Status: Retired
6/29/1955 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/26/1993
Last Flight: 6/2/1998

Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He retired from the USAF with the rank of Colonel.

Ellen S. Baker

Status: Retired
4/27/1953 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1989
Last Flight: 6/27/1995

Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, M.D., M.P.H. is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Baker serves as Chief of the Education/Medical Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office.

Nikolai Budarin

Status: Retired
4/29/1963 -
Nationality: Russian
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/27/1995
Last Flight: 11/23/2002

Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.

Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003.

Gregory Harbaugh

Status: Retired
4/15/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/28/1991
Last Flight: 2/11/1997

Gregory Jordan Harbaugh is a former NASA astronaut that spent 34 days in space through four Space Shuttle missions including the first . docking missions with the Russian Space Station Mir and the second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

Anatoly Solovyev

Status: Retired
1/16/1948 -
Nationality: Russian
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/7/1988
Last Flight: 8/5/1997

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; born January 16, 1948 – alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours).

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Status: Retired
3/3/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/30/1985
Last Flight: 1/23/1998

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. From January 2013 - December 2015, Dr. Dunbar lead the University of Houston's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and was a faculty member in the Cullen College of Engineering.[1] Currently, she is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and serves as Director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI), a joint entity in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Mission

STS-71

Type: Human Exploration

STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on 7 July with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis.