Mir EO-24

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 ← EO-23 EO-25 →

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.

See also

• 1997 in spaceflight

External links

• Mir 24 Summary