STS-60
Sign in to saveSTS-60 was the first mission of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the 18th flight of Discovery, in which Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module, developed by SPACEHAB Inc., into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.
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- Astroculture (ASC-3)Bioserve Pilot Lab (BPL)Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA)Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG)Controlled Liquid Phase Sintering Experiment (ECLiPSE-Hab)Getaway Special (GAS)Immune Response Studies Experiment (IMMUNE-01)Organic Separation (ORSEP)Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS)Space Experiment Facility (SEF)Three-Dimensional Microgravity Accelerometer (3-DMA)
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- STS-60 mission patch
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- Clockwise from bottom left: Reightler, Chang-Díaz, Sega, Krikalev, Davis and Bolden
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- Space Shuttle program
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- STS-61 (59)
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- STS-60
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- Space Transportation System-60
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- Wake Shield Facility on STS-60 (STS060-74-054).jpg
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- The SPACEHAB-2 in Discoverys payload bay, as Canadarm grapples the Wake Shield Facility (WSF-1).
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- Microgravity research
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- NASA
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- 8 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes, 22 seconds
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- 130
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- 6
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- February 3, 1994, 12:10:00 UTC
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 716962
- Mass
- 10231
- Orbital period
- 91.5
- Image
- STS-60 Launch.jpg
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- STS-60
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1994-02-03
- orbits completed
- 130
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1994-02-11
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- STS-60
- orbital inclination
- 57.0
- periapsis
- 348
- apoapsis
- 351
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STS-60 was the first mission of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the 18th flight of Discovery, in which Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module, developed by SPACEHAB Inc., into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.
== Crew ==