Astronomy:Mir EO-24

Short description: Twenty-fourth expedition to Mir space station

Mir EO-24

Mission type	Mir expedition
Mission duration	197 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes (at Mir) 197 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes (launch to landing)
Distance travelled	~126,000,000 kilometres (78,000,000 mi)
Orbits completed	3,128
Expedition
Space Station	Mir
Began	5 August 1997 (1997-08-05)
Ended	19 February 1998 (1998-02-20)
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TM-26 Foale: STS-84 Space Shuttle Atlantis Wolf: STS-86 Space Shuttle Atlantis Thomas: STS-89 Space Shuttle Endeavour
Departed aboard	Soyuz TM-26 Foale: STS-86 Space Shuttle Atlantis Wolf: STS-89 Space Shuttle Endeavour Thomas: STS-91 Space Shuttle Discovery
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Anatoly Solovyev Pavel Vinogradov Colin Michael Foale* (August-September) David Wolf (September-January) Andy Thomas† (January-February) * - transferred from EO-23 † - transferred to EO-25
Long-term Mir expeditions

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 United States of America 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 and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Pavel Vinogradov First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	/ 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.

See also

• 1997 in spaceflight

External links

• Mir 24 Summary