Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
Primary payload "Spacelab-module"; first docking-maneuver between an U.S.
and a Russian spacecraft since 20 years; after docking Atlantis on MIR, the
crews visited each other and performed joint research work in the Spacelab and
in MIR; MIR resident crew exchanged;
Soloviyov and
Budarin became the
19th resident crew;
both cosmonauts performed three
EVA`s on
14.07.1995 (5h 34m), 19.07.1995 (3h 08m) and 21.07.1995 (5h 50m); the
18th resident crew (
Dezhurov,
Strekalov,
Thagard) returned to Earth with STS-71; separation observed
from also separated Soyuz spacecraft, after a 7 day-flight.