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![]() Mir viewed from the flight deck of Atlantis | |
Names | Space Transportation System-84 |
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Mission type | Shuttle-Mir |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1997-023A |
SATCAT no. | 24804 |
Mission duration | 9 days, 4 hours, 19 minutes, 55 seconds |
Distance travelled | 6,000,000 kilometres (3,700,000 mi) |
Orbits completed | 144 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis |
Landing mass | 100,285 kilograms (221,091 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Launching | |
Landing | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 May 1997, 09:07:48.62 | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 24 May 1997, 13:27:44 | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 33 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 377 kilometres (234 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 393 kilometres (244 mi) |
Inclination | 51.7 degrees |
Period | 92.3 min |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking port | SO starboard |
Docking date | 17 May 1997, 02:33:20 UTC |
Undocking date | 22 May 1997, 01:03:56 UTC |
Time docked | 4 days, 22 hours, 30 minutes 36 seconds |
![]() ![]() Left to right – Seated: Linenger, Precourt, Foale; Standing: Clervoy, Collins, Lu, Kondakova, Noriega |
STS-84 was a crewed spaceflight mission by Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.