Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on STS-86, the seventh Shuttle-Mir docking mission, delivering supplies and exchanging astronaut David Wolf onto the station. Titov and Parazynski performed the first joint U.S.-Russian spacewalk on a Shuttle mission, attaching a solar array cap over Spektr's suspected leak.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.8 T
- Flight
- 87th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1997, 02:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1997-055
- Launches in 1997
- 57th of 89
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