Command Pilot: Kevin P. Chilton (Third Space Flight)
Pilot: Richard A. Searfoss (Second Space Flight)
Mission Specialist 1: Ronald M. Sega (Second Space Flight)
Mission Specialist 2: Michael R. Clifford (Third Space Flight)
Mission Specialist 3: Linda M. Godwin (Third Space Flight)
Mission Specialist 3: Shannon Lucid EO-21 (Fifth Space Flight)

STS-76 was NASA's 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for Atlantis. STS-76 launched on 22 March 1996 at 3:13 am EST(UTC-5) from Kenndy Space Centre launch pad 39B. STS-76 lasted over 9 days, traveled about 3,800,000 miles (6,100,000 km) while orbiting Earth an estimated 145 times, and landing at 5:28 am PST (UTC-8) on 31 March 1996 at Edwards Air Force Base runway 22.
The flight was the third Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station - Mir, as part of the Shuttle-Mir programme, carrying astronaut Shanon Lucid to the orbital laboratory to replace NASA astronaut Norm Thagard. STS-76 also carried a SPACEHAB single module along with Lucid, and on flight day 6 Linda Godwin and Michael R. Clifford performed the first U.S.spacewalk around two docked spacecraft