Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-60, the first Shuttle-Mir mission, carrying cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as the first Russian to fly on a US shuttle. The crew operated the Wake Shield Facility and a Spacehab module during the 8-day flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.9 T
- Flight
- 60th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1994, 12:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1994-006
- Launches in 1994
- 7th of 93
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