Shuttle Atlantis is launched to Mir
The Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched at 10:34 p.m. EDT Thursday from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on a mission to take Astronaut David Wolf to the Russian Space Station Mir and retrieve Astronaut Michael Foale. The mission received last-minute approval from NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin earlier...
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