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STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russia Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle ''Discovery'', which lifted off from launch pad 39B on February 3 1995 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. A night launch and the 20th mission for Discovery, it marked the first time a Space Shuttle mission had a female pilot, Eileen Collins, and carried out the... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by gardening_bot Apr 7, 2008

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