The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a close approach and fly-around of Mir to demonstrate techniques prior to an actual docking, scheduled for a later flight. Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr., M.D., Mission Spcialist C. Navy, Mission Commander Colonel Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Russian Air Force, Cosmonaut. Air Force, Pilot Commander James Donald Weatherbee, U.S. Seated, left to right: Janice Elaine Voss, Sc.D., Mission Specialist Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Marie Collins, U.S. Flight crew of Space Shuttle Discovery, Mission STS-63. and Colonel Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Russian Air Force, of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities. (NASA)Īlso on board were Mission Specialists Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr., M.D. Astronaut Eileen Collins aboard Discovery (STS-63). This was the first time in the NASA Space Shuttle Program that a woman had been assigned as pilot of a space shuttle. Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Marie Collins, United States Air Force, on her first space flight, was Discovery’ s pilot. The mission, STS-63, was a rendezvous with the Russian space station, Mir.Ĭommander James Donald Wetherbee, United States Navy, on his second space flight, was the mission commander. (NASA)ģ February 1995: At 12:22:03.994 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-63) lifts off from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, 05:22:04 UTC, 3 February 1995. Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) launch from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 15:29:03 UTC, 8 July 2011. The space ship is on display at the Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis orbited the Earth 4,848 times and traveled miles 125,935,769 (202,673,974 kilometers) When it was retired at the end of STS-135, Atlantis had flown just one-third of its designed operational life. It spent 306 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes, 43 seconds in space. Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis first flew 3 October 1985 and made 33 space flights. Colonel Waldheim, the mission flight engineer, was on his third shuttle mission. She spent a total of 157 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes in space. Mission specialists were Sandra Hall Magnus, Ph.D. Hurley, United States Marine Corps, on his second shuttle flight. Atlantis‘ pilot for STS-135 was Lieutenant Colonel Douglas G. The mission commander was Captain Christopher J. Atlantis arrived at the Shuttle Landing Facility 21 July 2011 at 09-57 UTC. The mission had a total elapsed time of 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds. The mission was to carry assembly modules and supplies to the International Space Station in Low Earth Orbit.
This was the very last of 135 flights for the United States space shuttle program. (NASA)Ĩ July 2011: At 11:29:03 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, the Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) was launched on Mission STS-135 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Ferguson, USN, and Sandra Hall Magnus, Ph.D.
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