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| STS-72 | January 11, 1996 (09:41 GMT) |
January 20, 1996 (07:41 GMT) |
Commander: Brian Duffy (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | Perigee: 463 km Apogee: 463 km Inclination: 28.45° 141 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Brent Jett (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Leroy Chiao (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Winston Scott (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (10th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
28th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 3: Koichi Wakata (1st Flight) (NASDA Group 2) (NASA Group 14) |
Japan | M | Time 8 days 22 hours 1 minute |
| Mission Specialist 4: Daniel Barry (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-23 (7K-STM #72) |
February 21, 1996 (12:34 GMT) |
September 2, 1996 (07:41 GMT) |
Commander: Yuri Onufriyenko (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 10) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 201 km Apogee: 246 km Inclination: 51.6° 3,066 orbits 6 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
108 km SW of Akmola (50° 17' N, 70° 50' E) |
Flight Engineer: Yuri Usachyov (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 9) |
Russia | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U #651 |
Docked with Mir February 23, 1996 (14:20 GMT) (Kvant) |
Undocked from Mir September 2, 1996 (04:20 GMT) (Kvant) |
Backup Crew: Vasili Tsibliyev | Russia | M | Time 193 days 19 days 7 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Aleksandr Lazutkin | Russia | M | ||||
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| STS-75 | February 22, 1996 (20:18 GMT) |
March 9, 1996 (13:58 GMT) |
Commander: Andrew Allen (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 28.45° 252 orbits |
| Pilot: Scott Horowitz (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Jeffrey Hoffman (5th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Maurizio Cheli (1st Flight) (ESA Group 2) (NASA Group 14) |
Italy | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Claude Nicollier (3rd Flight) (ESA Group 1) (NASA Group 9) |
Switzerland | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (19th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
29th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 4: Franklin Chang-Diaz (5th Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Time 15 days 17 hours 40 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Umberto Guidoni (1st Flight) (ASI Group 2) |
Italy | M | ||||
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| STS-76 | March 22, 1996 (08:13 GMT) |
March 31, 1996 (13:28 GMT) |
Commander: Kevin Chilton (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 51.6° 145 orbits |
| Pilot: Richard Searfoss (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Ronald Sega (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
45th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Mission Specialist 2: Michael Richard Clifford (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | STS-76 Crew 1 spacewalk |
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| Mission Specialist 3: Linda Godwin (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (16th Mission) |
Docked with Mir March 24, 1996 (02:34 GMT) (Kristall) |
Undocked from Mir March 29, 1996 (01:08 GMT) (Kristall) |
Researcher: Shannon Lucid (5th Flight) (NASA Group 8 - NASA 2 Mission) (Down - STS-79) (188 days 4 hours 0 minutes) |
USA | F | Time 9 days 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Backup NASA 2 Researcher: John Blaha | USA | M | ||||
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| Priroda (77KSI #174-01) |
April 23, 1996 (11:48 GMT) |
March 23, 2001 (05:59 GMT) |
Priroda (Mir space station module) |
Russia | Perigee: 220 km Apogee: 370 km Inclination: 51.6° 28,182 orbits |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #385-01 |
Site-81L (Launch Pad 23) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Docked with Mir April 26, 1996 (12:42 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Transferred to the left lateral port April 27, 1996 (08:32 GMT - 10:06 GMT) |
Time 1,794 days 8 hours |
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| STS-77 | May 19, 1996 (10:30 GMT) |
May 29, 1996 (11:09 GMT) |
Commander: John Casper (4th Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | Perigee: 283 km Apogee: 283 km Inclination: 39° 161 orbits |
| Pilot: Curtis Brown (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Andrew Thomas (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Daniel Bursch (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (11th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
30th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 3: Mario Runco (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Time 10 days 0 hours 39 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 4: Marc Garneau (2nd Flight) (CSA Group 1) (NASA Group 14) |
Canada | M | ||||
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| STS-78 | June 20, 1996 (14:49 GMT) |
July 7, 1996 (12:37 GMT) |
Commander: Terence Henricks (4th Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | Perigee: 278 km Apogee: 278 km Inclination: 39° 272 orbits |
| Pilot: Kevin Kregel (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Richard Linnehan (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Susan Helms (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Charles Brady (1st Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (20th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
31st landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Jean-Jacques Favier (1st Flight) (CNES Group 2) |
France | M | Time 16 days 21 hours 47 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Robert Thirsk (1st Flight) (CSA Group 1) |
Canada | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Pedro Duque | Spain | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Luca Urbani | Italy | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-24 (7K-STM #73) |
August 17, 1996 (13:18 GMT) |
March 2, 1997 (06:44 GMT) |
Commander: Valeri Korzun (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 8) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 196 km Apogee: 243 km Inclination: 51.6° 3,113 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
128 km E of Dzhezkazgan (47° 49' N, 69° 24' E) |
Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Kaleri (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 6) |
Russia | M | ||
| Docked with Mir August 19, 1996 (14:50 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Undocked from Mir March 2, 1997 (03:24 GMT) (Kvant) |
Researcher: Claudie André-Deshays (1st Flight) (CNES Group 2 - Cassiopée Mission) (Down - Soyuz TM-23) (15 days 18 hours 23 minutes) |
France | F | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Port Relocation February 7, 1995 (16:28 GMT - 16:51 GMT) (Forward Port to Kvant) |
Backup Crew: Gennadi Manakov | Russia | M | Time 196 days 17 hours 26 minutes |
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| Backup Crew: Pavel Vinogradov | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Léopold Eyharts | France | M | ||||
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| STS-79 | September 16, 1996 (08:54 GMT) |
September 26, 1996 (12:13 GMT) |
Commander: William Readdy (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 315 km Apogee: 394 km Inclination: 51.6° 160 orbits |
| Pilot: Terrence Wilcutt (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Jerome "Jay" Apt (4th Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
32nd landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 2: Thomas Akers (4th Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 3: Carl Walz (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (17th Mission) |
Docked with Mir September 19, 1996 (03:13 GMT) (Kristall) |
Undocked from Mir September 24, 1996 (01:33 GMT) (Kristall) |
Researcher: John Blaha (5th Flight) (NASA Group 9 - NASA 3 Mission) (Down - STS-81) (128 days 5 hours 27 minutes) |
USA | M | Time 10 days 3 hours 18 minutes |
| Backup NASA 3 Researcher: Jerry Linenger | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-80 | November 19, 1996 (19:55 GMT) |
December 7, 1996 (11:49 GMT) |
Commander: Kenneth Cockrell (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 351 km Apogee: 351 km Inclination: 28.45° 279 orbits |
| Pilot: Kent Rominger (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Tamara Jernigan (4th Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (21st Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
33rd landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 2: Thomas Jones (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Time 17 days 15 hours 53 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 3: Story Musgrave (6th Flight) (NASA Group 6) |
USA | M | ||||
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