Expedition EO-22

Crew & mission data:

EVA data: EVAs  Date  Duration  Cosmonauts EVA-1  02 Dec 1996  5h 57m  Korzun V. & Kaleri A. EVA-2  09 Dec 1996  6h 36m  Korzun V. & Kaleri A.

Mission details:

• Former prime crew (Manakov and Vinogradov) was exchanged five days before launch due of medical problems of Manakov.
• Soyuz TM-24 was launched at 1318:03 UTC on Aug 17, 1996 from Kosmodrom Baykonur in Kazakstan with Mir Expedition EO-22: Valeri Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri of the Russian Space Agency (RKA).
• Soyuz docked with Mir's front port at 14:50:21 GMT on August 19, 1996; Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit; the Progress M-32 cargo ship, flying separately, is in a 375 x 392 km x 51.6 deg orbit.
• French mission CASSIOPÈE; physiological and neurological experiments.
• Progress M-32 redocked with Mir on Sep 3, 1996 after several days of free flight. It is docked at the rear port (+X) of the Kvant 37KE module, while Soyuz TM-24 is docked at the front (-X) port of the Mir complex.
• On Sept 19, 1996 STS-79 docked with the Mir complex at 03:20 UT. At 05:40 UT the hatch was opened opened and Lucid, Korzun and Kaleri were able to greet Blaha, Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Apt and Walz.
  

  View of Spektr module during STS-79 mission

  
  
• Astronaut John Blaha relieved Shannon Lucid as NASA resident on the complex.
• Atlantis undocked from the Mir complex on September 24, 1996 at 01:33 UT. Valeri Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri and John Blaha remain on Mir.
• The Progress M-33 cargo ship was successfully launched from Baykonur on Nov 19, 1996 and docked with Mir on Nov 22 at 0101 UTC.
• Progress M-32 undocked from Mir at 1944 UTC on Nov 20 and was deorbited over the Pacific at 2242 UTC.
• On Dec 2, 1996 Korzun and Kaleri made a 5h 57min space walk to install a new solar panel. They opened the Kvant-2 hatch at 1554 UTC. Blaha remained aboard the station.
• Kaleri and Korzun made their second spacewalk at 1352 UTC on Dec 09, with hatch closure after 6h 36 min.
• Atlantis STS-81 docked with Mir at 03:55 UTC on Jan 15, 1997. Jerry Linenger will replaced John Blaha on the Mir crew.
• The Shuttle undocked from the SO module on Mir at 02:16 UTC on Jan 20, after picking up John Blaha, who had arrived aboard STS-79 on September 19, 1996, and dropping off Jerry Linenger, who was to stay aboard Mir for over four months.
• The Progress M-33 robot cargo ship undocked from the +X axis of Mir at 1213:56 UTC on Feb 6 and began independent orbital flight in a 377 x 395 km x 51.65 deg orbit.
• On Feb 7, 1997 at 16:28:01 the Mir crew of Korzun, Kaleri and Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port (-X), flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the +X port at 1651:27 UTC. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12.
• The Mir crew of Korzun, Kaleri, Ewald, Tsibliev, Lazutkin and Linenger continued their mission on the complex in late February.
  On Feb 23, 1997 at 19:35 UTC a fire broke out in a lithium perchlorate cartridge in the Kvant module used to generate extra oxygen on Mir, filling the complex with smoke. Korzun and Kaleri used extinguishers to fight the fire which was extinguished after 90 seconds; the heavy smoke persisted for about five minutes and the crew wore gas masks for two and a half hours. Now the crew are having difficulty generating sufficient oxygen for the life support system.
• Korzun, Kaleri and Ewald undocked from Mir in the Soyuz TM-24 spaceship at 03:24 UT on March 2, 1997 and landed at 06:44 GMT near Arkalyk in Kazakstan.