Clockwise from bottom left: Kenneth Reightler, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Ronald Sega, Sergei Krikalev, Jan Davis, Charles Bolden
Mission patch
The first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir program, Discovery (STS-60) was launched February 3, 1994. Her crew consisted of Commander Charles Bolden Jr., Pilot Kenneth Reightler, Jr., Mission Specialist Jan Davis, Mission Specialist Ronald Sega, Mission Specialist Franklin Chang Diaz and Mission Specialist Sergei Krikalev, the first cosmonaut to fly on a U.S. Space Shuttle.
Several attempts were made to deploy the Wake Shield Facility, an experimental science platform, but problems arose each time. It was finally deployed on a later space shuttle mission.
On February 7, Good Morning America performed a video hookup between Discovery (over the Pacific Ocean) and the three cosmonauts on Mir (over the southern United States).
Discovery returned to Earth February 11.
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