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| Names | Space Transportation System-60 |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Microgravity research |
| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 1994-006A |
| SATCAT no. | 22977 |
| Mission duration | 8 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes, 22 seconds |
| Distance travelled | 5,535,667 km (3,439,704 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 130 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery |
| Landing mass | 97,448 kg (214,836 lb) |
| Payload mass | 10,231 kg (22,555 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 6 |
| Members | |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | February 3, 1994, 12:10:00 UTC |
| Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A |
| Contractor | Rockwell International |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | February 11, 1994, 19:19:22 UTC |
| Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 15 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Perigee altitude | 348 km (216 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 351 km (218 mi) |
| Inclination | 56.40° |
| Period | 91.50 minutes |
| Instruments | |
| Astroculture (ASC-3) Bioserve Pilot Lab (BPL) Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG) Controlled Liquid Phase Sintering Experiment (ECLiPSE-Hab) Getaway Special (GAS) Immune Response Studies Experiment (IMMUNE-01) Organic Separation (ORSEP) Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS) Space Experiment Facility (SEF) Three-Dimensional Microgravity Accelerometer (3-DMA) | |
 STS-60 mission patch  Clockwise from bottom left: Reightler, Chang-Díaz, Sega, Krikalev, Davis and Bolden | |
STS-60 was the first mission of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the 18th flight of Discovery, in which Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module, developed by SPACEHAB Inc., into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.