Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-76, the third shuttle docking with Russian space station Mir, delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid for a long-duration stay and flying the first US spacewalk around two docked spacecraft since Skylab in 1974.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13 T
- Flight
- 76th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1996, 08:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-018
- Launches in 1996
- 19th of 77
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