STS-86 – Spaceflight Now

September 18, 2021

Breaking News

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[ September 16, 2021 ] Inspiration4 crew chats with Elon Musk, works through first full day in space Mission Reports
[ September 16, 2021 ] Four private citizens ride SpaceX rocket into orbit on historic mission Falcon 9

Shuttle skipper, mountaineering spacewalker going into Hall of Fame

May 12, 2016

Commander of the 100th space shuttle flight and a spacewalker who later climbed Mount Everest will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

OTD…Sept. 25 and STS-86

September 25, 2015

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir