Soyuz TM-24

Soyuz TM -24 mission is the designation for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spaceship to the Russian space station Mir. The 27th visit of a space ship in the space station Mir was the 24th visit of a Soyuz spacecraft and the 100th flight in the Russian Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Start crew

  • Valery Grigoryevich Korzun ( first space flight), Commander
  • Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri ( second space flight), flight engineer
  • Claudie Haigneré ( first space flight), Wissenschaftskosmonautin ( Centre national d' études spatiales CNES / France )

Backup crew

  • Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, Commander
  • Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer
  • Léopold Eyharts, Science Cosmonaut ( Centre national d' études spatiales CNES / France )

In fact, Manakov and Vinogradov for the home team were provided. However, cardiac disorders were found when Manakov, so he and Vinogradov had to be replaced by Korsun and Kaleri.

Return crew

  • Valery Grigoryevich Korzun ( first space flight), Commander
  • Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri ( second space flight), flight engineer
  • Reinhold Ewald, science astronaut ( German Centre for Aerospace DLR / Germany Germany )
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