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STS-60

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 3 Feb 1994, 12:10 pm UTC

Rocket: Space Shuttle

Provider: Lockheed Space Operations Company

Mission

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Description

STS-60 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried Sergei K. Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on 3 February 1994 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.