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	Anatoly Solovyev Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Pavel Vinogradov First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Colin Michael Foale Fourth spaceflight Launched during Mir EO-23	David Wolf Third spaceflight	Andy Thomas Second spaceflight

Note: 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.

External links

• Mir 24 Summary