![]() December 1998: STS-88 – Endeavour conducts first construction mission of the International Space Station program when it connects Harmony to Russian Zarya module.October 1998: STS-95 – Mercury astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, returns to space onboard Discovery.November 1996: STS-80 – Columbia flies longest shuttle mission: 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes.June 1995: STS-71 – Atlantis docks to Russian Mir space station for the first time.December 1993: STS-61 – Hubble Space Telescope repaired.April 1990: STS-31 – Hubble Space Telescope launched on shuttle.May 1989: STS-30 – Magellan probe to Venus becomes first interplanetary probe launched from shuttle.28, 1986: STS-51L – Challenger lost to aerodynamic breakup during launch accident 12, 1986: NASA launches 10 shuttle missions in a year, including the first two flights of Atlantis about six weeks apart. February 1984: STS-41B – Astronaut Bruce McCandless flies jetpack from shuttle. ![]()
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