STS-60 was the first flight of the U.S.-Russian Shuttle-Mir Program.
Space Shuttle Discovery launched STS-60 on February 3, 1994, beginning a series of missions designed to build practical cooperation between NASA and Russia after the Cold War. The flight carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module, and it included communications with cosmonauts aboard Mir. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev also became the first Russian to fly aboard a U.S. Space Shuttle.
STS-60 did not dock with Mir, which is the most common mix-up. STS-63, flown in 1995, became the first Shuttle mission to rendezvous with and fly around Mir. The first actual Shuttle-Mir docking came later, when Atlantis performed STS-71 in June 1995. Together, these missions developed the procedures and trust that preceded the International Space Station partnership.