Space shuttle Discovery's STS-96 mission achieved the first shuttle docking with the International Space Station, linking to the Unity module's PMA-2 port. The crew transferred roughly 1,600 kg of supplies, spare parts, and equipment to the fledgling station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22 T
- Flight
- 94th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 1999, 10:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1999-030
- Launches in 1999
- 31st of 78
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