STS-91, flown by Discovery, was the ninth and final Space Shuttle-Mir docking mission. The crew retrieved astronaut Andrew Thomas after his 130-day stay aboard Mir, closing out the Shuttle-Mir Phase 1 program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.8 T
- Flight
- 91st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 2 June 1998, 22:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-034
- Launches in 1998
- 35th of 82
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