Saturday, July 6, 2002

Soyuz TM-24

 1996-047A


EO-22 crew commander Gennady Manakov was pulled off the flight because of a heart problem only a week before launch, and he and prime flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov were replaced by the backups Valeriy Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri. They joined cosmonaut-researcher Claudie Andre-Deshays of CNES. The CNES portion of the mission was codenamed Cassiop'ee.


Soyuz TM-24 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1996 Aug 17  1317:52 Ignition 
 1318:03  Launch by 11A511U  KB  
 1320:03  Blok BVGD sep 
 1320:06  Escape tower sep 
 1320:43  Fairing sep 
 1322:48  Blok A cutoff 
 1322:51  Blok A sep 
 1323:03  Blok-I burn  
 1323:10  Interstage sep  
 1326:53  Blok-I cutoff 
 1327  Blok-I sep  
 1330Deploy rendezvous antennae 
 1334Deploy solar panels 
 1341Deploy comms antennae 
 1647:43 TCM1 
 1750:21  TCM2 
1996 Aug 19  1450:21 Docked -X Mir  

The second flight of the craft was a redocking from the front to the rear (+X) end of Mir. The crew were Korzun, Kaleri and Linenger.


Soyuz TM-24 flight 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Feb 7  1628:01  Undocked -X Mir 
 1651:27  Docked +X Kvant 

The crew of Korzun, Kaleri and Ewald undocked on Mar 2. The spaceship landed at 47 49 N 69 24 E in Kazakstan.


Soyuz TM-24 flight 3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Mar 2  0324:57  Undocked  
 0329:30  Sep burn 
 0550:12  Deorbit 115.2m/s 
 0554 Deorbit complete 
 0614BO, PO sep 
 0617Entry 
 0644:15Landed 

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