Mission type Mir expedition Space Station Mir | Orbits completed 3,128 | |
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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) Began 5 August 1997 (1997-08-05) | ||
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.
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.
References
Mir EO-24 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA