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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103: STS-63

STS-63 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launch pad 39B on 3 February 1995 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Friday, 3 February 1995
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103: STS-63

Mission Data

Launch VehicleSpace Shuttle
Vehicle Record133 of 135 launches (98.5%)
Launch Provider🇺🇸 Lockheed Space Operations Company
Provider TypeCommercial
Agency Record64 successes / 1 failures (98%)
Success Streak49 consecutive
ProgramSpace Shuttle · Human Spaceflight
Mission TypeHuman Exploration
Target OrbitLow Earth Orbit
Launch PadLaunch Complex 39B
Location🇺🇸 Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA USA
Orbital Launches This Year#6
Agency Launches This Year#1
Launches From This Pad59
Launches From This Site283
Status Note

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

About Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

Launch Site

Launch Complex 39B · 28.6271°N 80.6210°W

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.