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A Flight of Firsts

Atlantis' STS-76 mission marked first flight of the SPACEHAB pressurized module.

 

The flight also featured the third linkup between a U.S. space shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir, highlighted by the transfer of veteran astronaut Shannon Lucid to Mir to become the first American woman to live on station.

 

March 22, 1996

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