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Old 06-30-15, 09:06 PM   #435
Gargamel
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By pure coincidence....

The other day, I made my first rendezvous with a shuttle to a space station. I've been using the shuttle for satellite insertion and repairs and other utilities. But since I'm using a orbital refueling station around Minmus for interplanetary missions, I needed a way to get kerbals up to the reusable craft. This version of the shuttle has a crew capacity of 20. The small service/escape vehicle also docked can only hold 7, or 3 with cargo. There is a Minmus-LKO shuttle that will transfer kerbals between the two stations.

As it turns out, it was on the same day, the anniversary of Atlantis docking with Mir. STS-71 was not only the first Shuttle mission to dock with a space station, but was also the 100th manned flight by the US.







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