The STS-84 Atlantis mission was launched on May 15th 1997. Atlantis is scheduled to carry out the sixth docking with the Russian space station Mir, exchanging crew members, delivering supplies and testing new technologies. ESA astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, from France, makes his second trip into space.
The footage on this video is arranged as follows: view of pre-launch assembly; astronauts sit round dinner-table, camera focusses on each crew member in turn; crew are suited-up; leaving operations and checkout building; crew travel in bus to launchpad, ignition and lift-off; mid-flight tracker footage of boosters firing; solid rocket booster separation; launch replays - various footage of night launch.

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