#sts-63

“STS-63 EVA VIEW

A high angle shot photographed by a space walking crew member showing the Space Shuttle Discovery's forward section and forward cargo bay. The Spacehab-3 and Ku-band antenna are visible. Onboard the Discovery were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, mission commander; Eileen Collins, pilot; Bernard A. Harris Jr., payload commander; mission specialist’s C. Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, and cosmonaut Vladimir G. Titov.”

Date: February 3-11, 1995

“The dawn of a golden new era in international space cooperation is echoed in the gold-dusted morning sky that greets the orbiter discovery as it glides in for a landing on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. During the approximately eight-day, six-hour flight of STS-63, the crew completed a close-in rendezvous and flyaround with the Russian space station Mir, performed research in the SPACEHAB-3 lab module, and deployed and retrieved the SPARTAN-204 free-flyer. Heading up the six-member crew is Commander James D. Wetherbee; serving as his second in command is Eileen M. Collins, the first female Shuttle pilot; Bernard A. Harris Jr., a medical doctor is the payload commander; and Janice Voss, C. Michael Foale and Vladimir G. Titov, a veteran Russian cosmonaut, are the three mission specialists. Discovery’s successful rendezvous with Mir has served as an excellent dress rehearsal for a planned series of dockings between the U. S. Shuttle and Mir, slated to begin later this year. After the astronauts had landed, the cosmonauts aboard Mir radioed their congratulations on the mission’s completion and a job well done.”

Date: February 11, 1995