STS-86

STS-86 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. This was the last Atlantis mission before it was taken out of service temporarily for maintenance and upgrades, including the glass cockpit.

Key facts

Spaceflight.name: STS-86
Spaceflight.names_list: Space Transportation System-86
Spaceflight.image: STS86 Mir Station.jpg
Spaceflight.image_caption: View of Mir from Atlantis, with damage to one of Spektr solar arrays visible
Spaceflight.insignia: Sts-86-patch.svg
Spaceflight.mission_type: Shuttle-Mir
Spaceflight.operator: NASA
Spaceflight.orbits_completed: 170
Spaceflight.mission_duration: 10 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 12 seconds
Spaceflight.launch_site: Kennedy, LC-39A
Spaceflight.launch_date:  UTC
Spaceflight.landing_date:  UTC
Spaceflight.landing_site: Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
Spaceflight.crew_size: 7
Spaceflight.crew_photo: STS-86_crew.jpg
Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption: Left to right – Front row: Wolf, Bloomfield, Wetherbee, Lawrence; Back row: Chrétien, Parazynski, Titov, Foale. An early version of this photograph omitted Wolf.
Spaceflight.apsis: gee
Spaceflight.orbit_reference: Geocentric