NASA test-fired the RS-25 engines that will power Artemis program missions. These upgraded shuttle-era engines will drive the Space Launch System, sending astronauts toward the Moon and laying the groundwork for long-term lunar exploration. | SpaceEve

Jun. 27, 1995: 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 t

Mir was a modular space station operated from 1986 to 2001, serving as a long duration laboratory for biology, physics, Earth observation, and human endurance in microgravity. It hosted crews for months at a time and became the foundation for later international cooperation in space, including the Shuttle Mir missions that led directly to the ISS era. Follow @spaceeves #Mir #SpaceStation #spacehistory | SpaceEve