Stabilized first Shuttle-Mir docking sequences from both the space station and shuttle Atlantis.
The final docking sequence is in real time (at 4:55). Approach sequences are not in real time and don't exactly match the audio description. Some approach photos were used in the beginning.

Handheld video footage taken from Mir was stabilized. All footage was color corrected - specially video taken from Mir, that was color shifted towards a pink.

Research, cleanup and audio/image processing by Retro Space HD.

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STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on 7 July with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis.

Launch Crew:
- Robert L. Gibson
- Charles J. Precourt
- Ellen S. Baker
- Gregory J. Harbaugh
- Bonnie J. Dunbar
- Anatoly Solovyev
- Nikolai Budarin

Docking occurred at 9 am EDT, 29 June, using R-Bar or Earth radius vector approach, with Atlantis closing in on Mir from directly below. R-bar approach allows natural forces to brake the orbiter's approach more than would occur along standard approach directly in front of the space station; also, an R-bar approach minimizes the number of orbiter jet firings needed for approach.

The manual phase of the docking began with Atlantis about a half-mile (800 m) below Mir, with Gibson at the controls on aft flight deck.

Stationkeeping was performed when the orbiter was about 75 metres (246 ft) from Mir, pending approval from Russian and U.S. flight directors to proceed.

Gibson then maneuvered the orbiter to a point about 10 metres (33 ft) from Mir before beginning the final approach to station.

Closing rate was close to the targeted 0.1 foot per second (30 mm/s), being approximately 0.107 foot per second (33 mm/s) at contact. Interface contact was nearly flawless: less than 25 millimetres (0.98 in) lateral misalignment and an angular misalignment of less than 0.5 degrees per axis. No braking jet firings had been required.

Docking occurred about 216 nautical miles (400 kilometres (250 mi)) above Lake Baikal region of the Russian Federation. The Orbiter Docking System (ODS) with Androgynous Peripheral Docking System served as the actual connection point to a similar interface on the docking port on Mir's Kristall module. ODS, located in the forward payload bay of Atlantis, performed flawlessly during the docking sequence.

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