STS 63

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General

Launch id	95004
Launch date	3 Feb 1995 at 05:22:04 UT
Launch site	Cape Canaveral LC39B
Type	Discovery #20
Crew	Jim Wetherbee (commander) Eileen Collins (pilot) Bernard Harris (mission specialist) Mike Foale (mission specialist) Janice Voss (mission specialist) Vladimir Titov (Russian Space Agency)
Landing date	Cape Canaveral
Landing site	11 Feb 1995 at 11:50 UT
Payload	Spartan 204 (launched and retrieved) Oderacs 2A Oderacs 2B Oderacs 2C Oderacs 2D Oderacs 2E Oderacs 2F

Spacehab 3 (SH 03) mission

The Spacehab module is a pressurized laboratory containing experiment racks and lockers. FU-1 has a new window in the roof to help in the Mir rendezvous operation.

It carried the Spacehab module containing microgravity experimental apparatus. Despite a thruster leak from the shuttle, STS 63 was finally allowed to come close to the MIR station, within about twelve meters, as a prelude to a planned docking in the future.

This was the second time there had been three women in space (STS 40 was the first), and the second time that a Russian had flown on a US spaceship.

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External resources

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-63/mission-sts-63.html

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