Shuttle blasts off

Tuesday 27 June 1995 23:02 BST
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Shuttle blasts off

Cape Canaveral - The shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida at 1932GMT for the first US-Russian space docking mission in 20 years. It was heading for Russia's Mir space station carrying five Americans and two Russians. Reuter

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