Atlantis is rolled onto Kennedy pad for next Mir mission

4 September 1996

The fourth Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM), the STS79, due to have flown in July, will deliver 1,475kg of food, water, supplies and equipment to the Russian Mir 1 space station, together with astronaut John Blaha, who will replace US colleague Shannon Lucid. She will return aboard the STS79. Blaha will ...

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