1995 in spaceflight

This article outlines notable events occurring in 1995 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs.

First Shuttle-Mir mission

Atlantis docked to Mir, photographed from the departing Soyuz-TM spacecraft Uragan

As the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, STS-71 became the first Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir. STS-71 began on June 27, 1995, with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on July 7 with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis, and the second Shuttle mission to land with an eight-person crew after STS-61-A in 1985.

Orbital launches

Suborbital launches

Deep Space Rendezvous

EVAs

References

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• Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive".
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• Webb, Brian. "Southwest Space Archive".
• Zak, Anatoly. "Russian Space Web".
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• "Хроника освоения космоса" [Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian).

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Footnotes

1. "H-II". astronautix.com. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
2. "20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Apparently Exploded in Orbit". Space.com. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
3. Jonathan McDowell [@planet4589] (21 February 2024). "ESA ERS-2 satellite reentry on a track from Alaska to the Pacific confirmed: Space-Track gives 151.9W 37.4N over the Pacific at 1717 UTC. NOAA radar data taken 1842 UTC shows an upper-atmosphere debris trail extending S from the Alaska coast near 144W 59.5N" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
4. Gibson, Hillary (14 December 2022). "SpOC officially retires DSCS satellite". Space Operations Command. United States Space Force. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
5. Dumouline, Jim (2001). "sts-63-patch STS-63 (67)". NASA Space Shuttle Launch Archive. NASA. Archived from the original on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
6. McDonald, Sue (December 1998). "Mir Mission Chronicle" (PDF). NASA. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
7. Dudoulin, Jim (2001). "STS-69 Day 9 Highlights". NASA Space Shuttle Launch Archive. NASA. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.