Labels:earth | sky | space helmet | space rocket | test equipment | trade name | tree OCR: STS-79 Day The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on time at 3:54 m CDT. beginning planned Aep mission in which Atlantis would doek with the Russian Space Station Mir and retrieve U.S astronaut Shannon Lucid, ending her record- setting six month stay onboard Mir. Atlantis six member crew included veteran astron aut John Blaha who replaced Lucid on Mir and became the third of seven Americans to livE and work as researcher aboard Mir through 1998 Blaha would about four month on the space station. During communications hook- up with Houston's Mission Control, Lucid told ground control llers that she saw the launch from on board Mir. At the time of the shuttle launch Mir was about 5,000 nautical miles southwest Florida Kennedy Space Center. Following normal ascent into space Atlantis auxiliary po ...
