Space Shuttle Docks with Mir: American and Russian Stations Meet
The Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir on June 29, creating the largest spacecraft ever assembled in orbit at that moment. This historic union ended a twenty-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian cooperation by swapping crews and delivering vital supplies to the aging station. The mission successfully retrieved astronaut Norman Thagard while launching joint life sciences experiments that proved long-term international collaboration could sustain human presence in space.
June 29, 1995
31 years ago
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Der Benediktinermönch Bardo wird Erzbischof von Mainz.
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