Space Shuttle Discovery flew the STS-63 'Near-Mir' mission, performing the first rendezvous between a Shuttle and Russia's Mir space station. Eileen Collins served as pilot, becoming the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.1 T
- Flight
- 67th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1995, 05:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1995-004
- Launches in 1995
- 6th of 80
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