Beskrivning : STS-76 was NASA`s 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for Atlantis.

The flight was the third Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, as part of the Shuttle-Mir Program, carrying astronaut Shannon Lucid to the orbital laboratory to replace NASA astronaut Norm Thagard. STS-76 also carried a SPACEHAB single module along with Lucid, and on flight day 6 Linda Godwin and Michael R. Clifford performed the first U.S. spacewalk around two docked spacecraft.

Kennedy Space Center post stamp.

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STS 76 (ATLANTIS) · MIR EXPEDITION 21 · SHUTTLE / MIR PROGRAM