STS-63
Sign in to saveSTS-63 was the second mission of the U.S.-Russian Shuttle–Mir program and the 20th flight of . Dubbed the "Near-Mir" mission, it achieved the first rendezvous between an American Space Shuttle and Russia's space station, Mir. Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on February 3, 1995, in a night launch. This mission featured several milestones, Eileen Collins became the first female pilot of a Space Shuttle and the first extravehicular activities for both a U.K. born astronaut, Michael Foale, and an astronaut of African heritage, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. STS-63 also
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-63
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-63
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- STS063-712-068.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- View from Discovery of Mir with the Progress M-25 (top) and Soyuz-TM Vityaz (bottom) spacecraft
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-63-patch.png
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- ResearchMir rendezvous
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 129
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 8 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, 15 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (12:22:04 am EST)
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:50:19 am EST)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- Sts-63_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Standing: Harris and FoaleSeated, from left: Voss, Collins, Wetherbee and Titov
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 714495
- Mass
- 8641
- Orbital period
- 92.3
- Image
- STS-63 launch.jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1995-02-03
- Commons category
- STS-63
- orbits completed
- 129
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1995-02-11
- Commons gallery
- STS-63
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 275
- apoapsis
- 342
- event distance
- 4816454
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10 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Spacewalks
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Coca-Cola in Space
- Mission insignia
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
STS-63 was the second mission of the U.S.-Russian Shuttle–Mir program and the 20th flight of . Dubbed the "Near-Mir" mission, it achieved the first rendezvous between an American Space Shuttle and Russia's space station, Mir. Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on February 3, 1995, in a night launch. This mission featured several milestones, Eileen Collins became the first female pilot of a Space Shuttle and the first extravehicular activities for both a U.K. born astronaut, Michael Foale, and an astronaut of African heritage, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. STS-63 also successfully deployed and retrieved the Spartan-204 (Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 204) and executed a flyaround of Mir, a critical rehearsal for the upcoming STS-71 mission, which would mark the first shuttle docking with the Russian space station.
==Crew==