Hoot Gibson and the final part of the STS27 Top Secret Mission and STS71, the Space Shuttle and MIR space Station docking in space for the first time.
STS71 was the third mission of the US/Russian ShuttleMir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to the Russian space station Mir. It started on June 27, 1995, with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on July 7 with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis, and the second Shuttle mission to land with an eightperson crew after STS61A in 1985.
For the five days the Shuttle was docked to Mir they were the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time. STS71 marked the first docking of a Space Shuttle to a space station, the first time a Shuttle crew switched members with the crew of a station and the 100th crewed space launch by the United States. The mission carried Spacelab and included a logistical resupply of Mir. Together the Shuttle and station crews conducted various onorbit joint US/Russian life science investigations with Spacelab along with the Shuttle Amateur Radio ExperimentII (SAREXII) experiment.

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The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir on June 29. In the first U.S.Russian(Soviet) docking in twenty years, Atlantis delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir.[1]
Other prime objectives were onorbit joint United States of AmericaRussian life sciences investigations aboard SPACELAB/Mir, logistical resupply of the Mir and recovery of US astronaut Norman E. Thagard.
Secondary objectives included filming with the IMAX camera and the Shuttle Amateur Radio ExperimentII (SAREXII) experiment.[1]
STS71 was the 100th U.S. human space launch conducted from Cape Canaveral, the first U.S. Space ShuttleRussian Space Station docking and joint onorbit operations; largest spacecraft ever in orbit; and the first onorbit changeout of Shuttle crew.
The rendezvous sequence began at 15:32:19 EDT with a liftoff inplane with Mir's orbit, at the opening of the 10 minute 19 second launch window. Ascent was nominal with no OMS 1 burn required.[1] The OMS 2 burn, initiated at 42 minutes 58 seconds Mission Elapsed Time, adjusted the orbit to 160 x 85.3 nautical miles. It was the lowest ever perigee altitude flown by an orbiter.[2] This facilitated a very rapid initial catch up rate with Mir of about 880 nautical miles per orbit.[3] Almost three hours later the orbit was raised to more typical values of 210 x 159 nautical miles by the OMS 3 burn.
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00:00 Introduction
01:10 Secret Mission STS27
01:39 The Pentagon
02:48 Top Secret Movie
08:58 STS71 The MIR Docking

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