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It was used for the first docking to a space station in the history of space flight, with the Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 11 missions that docked to the Soviet space station Salyut 1 in 1971. [1] [15] The docking system was upgraded in the mid-1980s to allow the docking of 20 ton modules to the Mir space station. [16]
The Hubble Space Telescope received the Soft-Capture Mechanism (SCM) on STS-125. [7] The SCM is meant for unpressurized docking, but uses the LIDS interface to reserve the possibility of an Orion docked mission. [7] The docking ring is mounted on Hubble's aft bulkhead. [7] It may be used for safely de-orbiting Hubble at the end of its service ...
The Shuttle–Mir program (Russian: Программа «Мир»–«Шаттл») [a] was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to allow American astronauts to engage in long-duration ...
Most rendezvous are for docking, as in this photo of the crews and spaceship models of the historic first time Soviet and US spacecraft Apollo-Soyuz docking in 1975 of the concluding Space Race Damaged solar arrays on Mir's Spektr module following a collision with an uncrewed Progress spacecraft in September 1997 as part of Shuttle-Mir. The ...
STS-71 was the 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from Cape Canaveral, the first U.S. Space Shuttle-Russian Space Station docking and joint on-orbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit; and the first on-orbit changeout of Shuttle crew.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon docked at the International Space Station on May 31, roughly 24 hours after the crew launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Footage from NASA shows the historic ...
STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle–Mir program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir. Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of Atlantis back at Kennedy.
Spacehab module during STS-107 Ten people inside Spacelab Module in the Shuttle bay in June 1995, celebrating the docking of the Space Shuttle and Mir. One area of Space Shuttle applications is an expanded crew. [35] Crews of up to eight have been flown in the Orbiter, but it could have held at least a crew of ten. [35]