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Mir chronology

 

Mir operations in 1997

During 1997, the Mir space station was hit with two major calamities – a fire onboard and a near-fatal collision with the Progress cargo ship.

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Mir

Mir space station circa 1997.

Missions to Mir in 1997:

Launch
Landing*
Spacecraft
Crew**
Jan. 12
Jan. 22
Atlantis/STS-81
Michael A. Baker, Brent W. Jett, Peter J.K. Wisoff, John M. Grunsfeld, Marsha S. Ivins, Jerry M. Linenger (ret. STS-84)
Feb. 10
Aug. 14
Soyuz TM-25
Vasily Tsibliev, Alexander Lazutkin, Reinhold Ewald (Germany) (ret. Soyuz TM-24)
April 6
June 24
Progress M-34
unmanned
May 15
May 24
Atlantis/STS-84
Charles J. Precourt, Eileen M. Collins, Jean-Francois Clervoy (France), Carlos I. Noriega, Edward T. Lu, Elena Kondakova, C. Michael Foale (ret. STS-86)
July 5
Oct. 7
Progress M-35
unmanned
Aug. 5
1998 Feb. 19
Soyuz TM-26
Anatoly Soloviev, Pavel Vinogradov
Sept. 26
Oct. 7
Atlantis/STS-86
James D. Wetherbee, Michael J. Bloomfield, Vladimir Titov, Scott E. Parazynski, Jean-Loup Chretien (France), Wendy B. Lawrence, David A. Wolf (ret. STS-89)
Oct. 5
Dec. 17
Progress M-36
unmanned
Dec. 20
1998 March 15
Progress M-37
unmanned

*Deorbit date for Progress vehicles and Mir modules

**Members of long-term (EO) expeditions are shown in bold

(Sources: 161, 52)

 

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progress

A Progress cargo ship approaches Mir.

vacuum

Crew of the Mir space station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis during its STS-84 mission in May 1997. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA