The 100th U.S. manned space flight and the first shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir was launched on June 27, 1995, at 3:32 p.m. Atlantis carried the Spacelab-Mir laboratory module in the payload bay. The crew was led by Hoot Gibson, with pilot Charlie Precourt and mission specialists Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar and Greg Harbaugh. The shuttle carried the next Mir crew to the station, Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin, and returned to Earth the outgoing crew of Gennady Strekalov, Vladimir Dezhurov and Norm Thagard.