COSPAR ID 1996-047A Apogee 287,400 m Launch date 17 August 1996 | Orbits completed ~3,160 Manufacturer RKK Energia Dates 17 Aug 1996 – 2 Mar 1997 Landing date 2 March 1997 | |
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Mission duration 196 days, 17 hours, 26 minutes, 13 seconds Launch mass 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members | ||
Soyuz TM-24 was the 27th expedition to Mir. Soyuz TM-24 carried a crew of three. The crew consisted of Cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, and the first French woman in space, Claudie André-Deshays. They joined American astronaut Shannon Lucid and Mir 21 crewmates Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Usachev. André-Deshays carried out biological and medical experiments on Mir for 16 days before returning to Earth with Onufriyenko and Usachev.
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