CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Discovery thundered into orbit Tuesday on NASA’s last voyage to Mir, a flight to bring home the seventh and final American to stay aboard the Russian space ...

He is due to return to Earth on Mar. 22, after a record 438 days in space. Learn more about the shuttle and Mir flights pose new challenges. See the cover of the February 20, 1995 issue.

One of our biggest stories of the past four decades took place in 1995, when an American space shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir. Despite previous cold war animosity, Russian ...