Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-84, the sixth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, exchanging U.S. astronaut Mike Foale for Jerry Linenger aboard the Russian station and transferring roughly 7,500 pounds of equipment, supplies and water.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.3 T
- Flight
- 84th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1997, 08:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1997-023
- Launches in 1997
- 24th of 89
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