Mir EO-24

Mir EO-24
Mir EO-24
Number of crew 3 (single segment); 5 (total)
Launch August 5, 1997
15:35 GMT
Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Launch craft Soyuz TM-26 (Solovyov / Vinogradov);
STS-84 (Foale);
STS-86 (Wolf);
STS-89 (Thomas)
Landing February 19, 1998
09:10 GMT
Landing craft Soyuz TM-26 (Solovyov / Vinogradov);
STS-86 (Foale);
STS-89 (Wolf);
STS-91 (Thomas)
Landing site 30 km (19 mi) away from Arkalyk, Kazakhstan
Duration 197 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes[citation needed]
Mission duration 197 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes[citation needed]
Number of orbits 3,128
Distance traveled ~126 million km (78 million miles)
Previous expedition Next expedition
Mir EO-23
Soyuz TM-25
Mir EO-25
Soyuz TM-27

Mir EO-24 was the 24th long-duration mission to Russia's Mir space station.

Crew

This mission was part of the Shuttle-Mir Program, in which three American astronauts flew aboard the station during Mir EO-24.

Position First Part
(August 1997 to September 1997)
Second Part
(September 1997 to January, 1998)
Third Part
(January, 1998 to February, 1998)
Commander Russia Anatoly Solovyev
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Pavel Vinogradov
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Colin Michael Foale
Fourth spaceflight
Launched during Mir EO-23
United States David Wolf
Third spaceflight
United States Andy Thomas
Second spaceflight

Note: France Léopold Eyharts joined the Soyuz TM-26 crew on the way home from Mir, after launching with Soyuz TM-27 crewmembers Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin at the end of Mir EO-24. Foale arrived aboard Mir during the EO-23 mission, and was transferred to the EO-24 crew when the expeditions changed. Thomas remained aboard Mir as part of the EO-25 crew after the end of EO-24.

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