Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 23
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Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2 3 4
Nation: Russian Federation Russian Federation USA USA
Surname:  Tsibliyev  Lazutkin  Linenger  Foale
Given name:  Vasili Vasiliyevich  Aleksandr Ivanovich  Jerry Michael  Colin Michael
Job:  Commander  Flight Engineer  Research Cosmonaut  Research Cosmonaut
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz TM-25  Soyuz TM-25  STS-81  STS-84
Launch date:  10.02.1997  10.02.1997  12.01.1997  15.05.1997
Launchtime:  14:09 UT  14:09 UT  09:27 UT  08:07 UT
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz TM-25  Soyuz TM-25  STS-84  STS-86
Landingdate:  14.08.1997  14.08.1997  24.05.1997  06.10.1997
Landingtime:  12:17 UT  12:17 UT  13:28 UT  21:56 UT
Mission duration:  184d 22h 07m  184d 22h 07m  132d 04h 01m  144d 13h 48m
Orbits:  2926  2926  2091  2291

Expedition Report

Launch from Baikonur; landing 168 km southeast of Dzheskasgan.

Docking on MIR spacestation; Tsibliyev and Lazutkin became together with Linenger the 23rd MIR resident crew; scientific experiments together with Ewald during mission EUROMIR 97; on 14th day fire onboard of MIR (cosmonauts quenched it); EVA by Tsibliyev and Linenger on 29.04.1997 (4h 48m) an oxygen cleaning-aparature failed.

Crew was visited by the crew of STS 84 (17. - 22.05.1997); collision with a Progress-freighter with a heavy damage of the Spektr module; spares with Progress M-35 cargo spacecraft; several more failures (energy, oxygen-generators; heart problems of commander Tsibliyev); the Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on touchdown, so the crew performed one of the roughest landings in space history.

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