First shuttle docking
Who
Atlantis
What
first
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When

On 29 June 1995 the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir space station, beginning the Shuttle-Mir Program. This was the 100th space flight launched by the USA. Atlantis brought cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir, and returned Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov and Norm Thagard (USA) to Earth. This was the first time a shuttle crew had changed in-orbit.