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Mission Control Status Report #1
STS-74
Sunday, November 12, 1995 11 a.m. CST
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on time at 6:31 a.m. CST Sunday
marking the beginning of a mission in which the shuttle will
rendezvous with Russias Space Station Mir and deliver a permanent
docking port that will be used during future shuttle flights to Mir.
About 43 minutes after launch, a two minute and 13 second engine
firing changed the shuttles path into a 162 nautical mile circular
orbit. Once on orbit, the five crew members began configuring Atlantis
for on-orbit operations. Atlantis payload bay doors were opened about
90 minutes into the flight, followed by a go for on-orbit
operations.
STS-74 Commander Ken Cameron and Pilot Jim Halsell, about three hours
into the last flight of the year, fired the orbiters reaction control
jets in the first of a series of rendezvous burns that refined
Atlantis path to Mir. Shortly after that jet firing, the first
Canadian mission specialist, Chris Hadfield, activated the Russian
built docking module and its systems. The docking module is housed in
Atlantis payload bay. Hadfield will use the orbiters robot arm early
Tuesday to mate the docking module with the Atlantis Orbiter Docking
System prior to the orbiters link-up with Mir early Wednesday. The
docking is scheduled for 12:28 a.m. CST Wednesday.
All systems aboard Atlantis are performing well.
Crew members - Cameron, Halsell, and mission specialists Chris
Hadfield, Jerry Ross and Bill McArthur - will begin their sleep period
at 12:31 p.m. CST today and awaken at 8:31 p.m. CST today.
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