STS-71 Shuttle/Mir Flight: Day 1

The first day of the STS-71 flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis is contained in this video. This mission highlights the first U.S. docking with the Mir Space Station. The scope of this part of the STS-71 mission is to drop off and pickup two cosmonauts, and to pickup one American astronaut who has been living aboard the Mir Station for several months. The STS-71 flight crew consists of: Atlantis Mission Specialists Gregory Harbaugh, Ellen Baker, and Bonnie Dunbar; Flight Commander Robert Gibson; Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev, Vladimir Dezhurov; and Gannady Strekalov; and Dr. Norman Thagard. Flight footage contains prelaunch activities.