February 3.1995-U.S. "Discovery" space shuttle launch
(Seeing in the first month of the fourth day), February 3, 1995, the United States "Discovery" space shuttle launch.
United States "Discovery" space shuttle liftoff
"Discovery" space shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in 1999, the end of the then eight days journey into space February 3, 1995 (History Today www.lssdjt.com) due to technical problems delayed the launch day of "Discovery" space shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and finally the Kennedy Space Center the sky. In the afternoon of February 6, the chase of the space shuttle after a three and a half days, and finally in space orbit 395 kilometers above the ground to catch up with the Russian Mir orbital space station, basically as planned bilateral historic space flight instruments rendezvous. This is the U.S. Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking for the first time since 1975, the United States and Russia spacecraft second space rendezvous. The space flight lasted eight days, a range of 5.6 million kilometers. By the crew of five American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut, planned successfully completed the rendezvous of a space shuttle with the Russian Mir orbital space station, the morning of February 11 to return to the ground smoothly. This rendezvous marks a new starting point for the U.S. and Russian space cooperation, the international space cooperation toward new mileage.
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