Today, in the history of astronomy, the Atlantis major for Mir, and the space shuttle fleet is within the goal access.
Mir Commander Vladimir Desurov (in blue) and Atlantis Commander Robert shakes hands after Gibson Atlantis The dock is opened with a hatch between Mir and Shuttle and Space Station. Credit: NASA
Space shuttle AtlantisTo join the US space shuttle fleet to a re-composed winged spacecraft and fourth space-qualified orbiter Columbia, ContendersAnd Search), Launched on 27 June 1995. Among other goals, the space shuttle program was designed to facilitate international collaboration, support space station operations, conducting research and facilitating crew exchange. Two days later, Atlantis It began to achieve those goals when it successfully performed America’s first docking with Russia’s MIR Space Station. When Dock, Atlantis and MIR created the largest spacecraft in class at that time, which weighed about half a million pounds. The mission also conducted a biomedical investigation, first-space crew transfer, and supplied. Atlantis In 2011, the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ending his broad career, will eventually go to make six more docking with MIRs for the International Space Station and several missions. The shuttle is now displayed at the Kennedy Space Center.
