Soyuz TM-24

Launch & orbit data: Designation  24280 / 96047A Launch date - time  17 Aug 1996 - 13:18:03 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1 Launch vehicle  Soyuz 11A511U OKB name - S/N°  Soyuz 7K-STM (11F732) s/n° 73 Mass (kg)  7150 kg Flight Crew  Korzun, Valeri (CDR) Kaleri, Aleksandr (FE) André-Deshays, Claudie (CR) Crew callsign  Fregat (Frigate ) Backup crew  Manakov G., Eyharts L. Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  378 / 394 km    - Inclination  51.7°    - Period  92.3 min

Docking & landing data: Docking date - time  19 Aug 1996 - 14:50:23 UT Target spacecraft/port  Mir/fore -X port Undocking date - time  07 Feb 1997 - 16:28:01 UT Redocking date - time  07 Feb 1997 - 16:51:27 UT Target spacecraft/port  Mir/ +X port Undocking date - time  02 Mar 1997 - 03:24:57 UT Deorbit burn date - time  02 Mar 1997 - 05:50:12 UT Landing date - time  02 Mar 1997 - 06:44:16 UT Landing location  128 km E of Dzheskasgan (47° 49' N, 69° 24' E) Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  196:17:26 Nbr orbits   Landing crew  Korzun, Kaleri, Ewald  (crew TM-24 & TM-25)

Launch Crew (EO-22)

Backup Crew

Mir over South Pacific - Credit: NASA.

Mission details:

• EO-22 crew commander Gennady Manakov has been taken ill and removed from the Soyuz TM-24 crew due for launch this month. The new crew is reportedly:
  Commander Valeri Korzun, RKA cosmonaut (first flight)
  Flight Engineer Aleksandr Kaleri, RKA cosmonaut (flew on Soyuz TM-14 in 1992). Researcher Cosmonaut Claudie Andre-Deshays, CNES (French Space Agency, first flight).
• Soyuz TM-24 was launched at 1318:03 UTC on Aug 17, 1996 from Kosmodrom Baykonur in Kazakstan. It carries the EO-22 crew of Valeri Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri and Claudie Andre-Deshays of the French space agency CNES. This launch was the first Soyuz-U with a crew aboard since the recent launch failures.
• Soyuz docked with Mir′s front port at 14:50:21 GMT on August 19; Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit.
• French mission CASSIOPÈE
• On Feb 7, 1997 at 1628:01 the EO-22 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 Soyuz TM-25.
• Korzun, Kaleri and Ewald undocked from Mir in the Soyuz TM-24 spaceship at 03:24 GMT on March 2 and landed at 06:44 GMT near Arkalyk in Kazakstan.

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur, mission and special Cassiopee cancel, send registrated to France, ESA cancel and return.

Cosmic Mail: Cover with 2 black Mir boardcancel, docking date boardcancel: 190896 and boardcancel: 260896, signed by the crew.

New launch cancel Baikonur on mission Cassiopee cover, signed by crew and send registrated.

Back of precident cover, with special FR astronaut cancel, numbered and Moskou arreved cancel.

Space Mail: MIR cancels and docking & landing octogonal cancels, signed by crew.

Space Mail:Red MIR board cancel.Credit: #401