Posted on Jun 29, 2021

U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station

Lt Col Charlie Brown

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On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

This historic moment of cooperation between former rival space programs was also the 100th human space mission in American history. At the time, Daniel Goldin, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), called it the beginning of “a new era of friendship and cooperation” between the U.S. and Russia. With millions of viewers watching on television, Atlantis blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida on June 27, 1995.

U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station

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Thank you my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for the historical reminder that on June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
An old friend and USMA classmate, launched from Russia numerous times to spend tours on the ISS.
He is the Rocket Man and a later version of Ziggy Stardust in our class :-)

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