STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian
Shuttle-Mir Program, and the second docking of the
Space Shuttle with
Mir. Space Shuttle
Atlantis lifted off from
Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of
Atlantis back at Kennedy. It was the second in a series of seven straight missions to the station flown by
Atlantis.