Mir NASA-1


Lucid

22 March 1996 08:13 GMT. Landing Date: 1996-09-26 12:13:00. Flight Time: 188.17 days. Alternate Name: STS-76 (Lucid). Flight Up: STS-76. Flight Back: STS-79. Call Sign: Atlantis. Crew: Lucid. Backup Crew: Blaha. Program: Mir. STS-76 docked with the Mir space station on 24 March 1996. Shannon Lucid was left on Mir for an extended stay on the first NASA Mir mission.

On September 19 STS-49 Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir space station. Aboard Atlantis in the payload bay were the Orbiter Docking System, the modified Long Tunnel, and the Spacehab Double Module, containing supplies for the Mir. Astronaut John Blaha relieved Shannon Lucid as NASA resident on the complex. Atlantis undocked from the Mir complex on September 23 at 23:33 GMT. Valeriy Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri and John Blaha remain on Mir. On September 26 Atlantis closed its payload bay doors, and at 11:06 GMT fired its OMS engines for a three minute long deorbit burn. After entry interface at 11:42 GMT the spaceship flew across Canada and the US for a landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Runway 15 at 12:13 GMT.


Mir NASA-1 Chronology

  • 1996 Mar 22 - External Airlock/ODS  Payload: EAL/ODS. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

  • 1996 Mar 22 - STS-76  Crew: Chilton, Clifford, Godwin, Lucid, Searfoss, Sega. Spacecraft: Atlantis. Payload: Atlantis F16 / Spacehab-SM. Mass: 6,753 kg (14,887 lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 9.22 days. Perigee: 394 km (244 mi). Apogee: 398 km (247 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 88.80 min.

    Shuttle-Mir Mission 3. Docked with the Mir space station 24 March 1996; Shannon Lucid was left on Mir for an extended stay. First American EVA on Mir. Payloads: SPACEHAB/Mir 03; KidSat; Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) II, Configuration M; RME 1304—Mir/ Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP); orbiter docking system RME 1315; Trapped Ions in Space Experiment (TRIS); Extravehicular Activity Development Flight Test (EDFT) 04.

  • 1996 Mar 27 - EVA STS-76-1  Crew: Godwin, Clifford. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.25 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Attached MEEP materials exposure experiment to outside of Mir (retrieved on STS-86).

  • 1996 Mar 31 - Landing of STS-76 

    STS-76 landed at 13:28 GMT with the crew of Chilton, Clifford, Godwin, Searfoss and Sega aboard.

  • 1996 Apr 2 - Mir News 296: American EVA outside Mir 

    The EVA made by Clifford and Godwin on 27.03.96 lasted 6 hrs and 2 mins. The Mir ...more...

  • 1996 Apr 15 - Mir News 297: Mir 

    Plans for the near future:

    The first operation will be the launch of the module ...more...

  • 1996 Apr 22 - Mir News 298: Launch Priroda 

    The planned launch date/time for the Module Priroda is 23.04. 1996 at 11hrs 48mins ...more...

  • 1996 Apr 23 - Priroda  Spacecraft: Priroda. Payload: 77KSI s/n 17401. Mass: 19,000 kg (41,000 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Proton 8K82K. Perigee: 220 km (130 mi). Apogee: 347 km (215 mi). Inclination: 51.67 deg. Period: 89.89 min.

    LEO. Remote sensing module for Mir space station Docked with Mir Apr 26.

  • 1996 Apr 24 - Mir News 299: Launch Priroda 

    The Priroda module blasted off from Baykonur on 23.04.1996 at 11.48.50 UTC, so 7 ...more...

  • 1996 Apr 26 - Mir News 300: Priroda successfully docked with Mir 

    After an automatic approach guided by the system Kurs Priroda linked up with Mir ...more...

  • 1996 Apr 30 - Mir News 301: Priroda 

    On 27.04.96 Priroda has been redocked from the -X to the +Z axis. This operation ...more...

  • 1996 May 4 - Mir News 302: Progress-M31 

    The launch of this freighter has been put forward to 5.05.1996 at 0704 UTC. If all ...more...

  • 1996 May 5 - Progress M-31  Spacecraft: Progress M. Payload: Progress M s/n 231. Mass: 7,140 kg (15,740 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U. Duration: 88.56 days. Perigee: 376 km (233 mi). Apogee: 390 km (240 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 92.20 min.

    Unmanned resupply vessel to Mir. Delivered 1,140 kg of fuel and 1,700 kg of cargo to the Mir complex. Docked with Mir on 7 May 1996 08:54:19 GMT. Undocked on 1 Aug 1996 16:44:54 GMT. Destroyed in reentry over the Pacific on 1 Aug 1996 20:33:03 GMT. Total free-flight time 2.23 days. Total docked time 86.33 days.

  • 1996 May 7 - Mir News 303: Launch Progress-M31 

    The freighter Progress-M31 was launched from Baykonur on 5.05.96 at 07.04.18 UTC. ...more...

  • 1996 May 17 - Mir News 304: 2d Spacewalk (EVA) crew Mir's 21 Main Expedition 

    This EVA will be the 1st of a series of 3, still to be done by this crew. The EVA ...more...

  • 1996 May 20 - EVA Mir EO-21-2  Crew: Onufrienko, Usachyov. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.22 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Installed MCSA solar array.

  • 1996 May 21 - Mir News 305: 2d Spacewalk (EVA) crew 21st Main Expedition to MI 

    The EVA began on 20.05.96 at 2250 UTC (opening hatch) and ended on 21.05.96 at 0410 ...more...

  • 1996 May 24 - EVA Mir EO-21-3  Crew: Onufrienko, Usachyov. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.24 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Deployed MCSA solar array.

  • 1996 May 25 - Mir News 306: 3d Spacewalk (EVA) crew 21st Main Expedition Mir 

    The cosmonauts Onufriyenko and Usachov made this EVA between 24.05 at 2047 UTC and ...more...

  • 1996 May 30 - EVA Mir EO-21-4  Crew: Onufrienko, Usachyov. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.18 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Multi-Spectral Scanner installed.

  • 1996 May 31 - Mir News 307: 4th Spacewalk (EVA) Onufriyenko and Usachov 

    This EVA started on 30.05 at 1820 UTC (opening of the hatch) and ended on 30.05. ...more...

  • 1996 Jun 5 - Mir News 308: 5th Spacewalk (EVA) Onufriyenko and Usachov 

    This EVA is planned for 6.06.1996 between 1655 UTC (opening hatch) and 1930 UTC ...more...

  • 1996 Jun 6 - EVA Mir EO-21-5  Crew: Onufrienko, Usachyov. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.16 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Retrieved and installed material samples

  • 1996 Jun 7 - Mir News 309: 5th Spacewalk (EVA) Mir-crew 

    This EVA took place on 6.06.1996 between 1656 UTC (opening of the hatch) and 2030 ...more...

  • 1996 Jun 13 - EVA Mir EO-21-6  Crew: Onufrienko, Usachyov. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.24 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

    Assembled truss. Deployed SAR radar antenna.

  • 1996 Jun 13 - Mir News 310: 6th Spacewalk (EVA) Mir-crew 

    This EVA began earlier than planned on 13.06.96 at 1245 UTC (opening of the hatch) ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 4 - Mir News 311: Progress-M32 

    The launch of this freighter has been put back again and is now on schedule for ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 9 - Mir News 312: POSSIBLE CHANGES IN PLANNING NEAR FUTURE 

    During the launch of Columbia on 20.06.1996 hot gasses leaked through the insulation ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 14 - Mir News 313: Atlantis - STS-79 4th Mir Docking mission. 

    On 11.07.96 the NASA decided to take a decision about the flight of Atlantis next ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 16 - Mir News 314: Progress-M32 

    The launch of this freighter with new supplies for the Mir-space station is on schedule ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 19 - Mir News 315: Progress-M32 

    The launch of this freighter has been put back again. Using the carrier Soyuz-U ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 22 - Mir News 316: CORRECTION 

    Ref. MirNWS.315: The planned launch time of Progress-M32 is on 24.07.1996 at 2247 ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 25 - Mir News 317: Progress-M32 

    The launch of this freighter has been postponed. A few seconds before blast off ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 30 - Mir News 318: Progress-M32 

    The launch of this freighter is now on schedule for 31.07.1996 at 20.00.04 UTC (For ...more...

  • 1996 Jul 31 - Progress M-32  Spacecraft: Progress M. Payload: Progress M s/n 232. Mass: 7,130 kg (15,710 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U. Duration: 96.11 days. Perigee: 371 km (230 mi). Apogee: 390 km (240 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 92.20 min.

    Unmanned resupply vessel to Mir. This was the first successful launch of a Soyuz-U after two failures. Docked with Mir at the forward docking port on 2 Aug 1996 22:03:40 GMT. Undocked on 18 Aug 1996 09:33:45 GMT in order to free up the docking port. By 29 August 1994 Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit; the Progress M-32 cargo ship, flying separately, was in a 375 x 392 km x 51.6 deg orbit. Redocked with Mir on 3 Sep 1996 09:35:00 GMT at the rear port of the Kvant module. Finally undocked from Mir on 20 Nov 1996 19:51:20 GMT. Destroyed in reentry on 20 Nov 1996 22:42:25 GMT. Total free-flight time 2.20 days. Total docked time 93.91 days.

  • 1996 Aug 1 - Mir News 319: Progress-M32 

    This freighter was launched from Baykonur on 31.07.1996 at 20.00.06 UTC. All went ...more...

  • 1996 Aug 3 - Mir News 320: Progress-M32 

    Docking at Mir:

    Progress-M32 docked at the Mir-station (-X axis, forward port ...more...

  • 1996 Aug 13 - Mir News 321: 22d Main Expedition to Mir 

    Due to serious hearth rhythm problems Manakov, the commander of the main crew, had ...more...

  • 1996 Aug 16 - Mir News 322: Soyuz-TM24 

    The most recent information from Moscow confirms that the launch of this ship with ...more...

  • 1996 Aug 17 - Soyuz TM-24  Crew: Andre-Deshays, Kaleri, Korzun. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM. Payload: Soyuz TM 11F732 s/n 73. Mass: 7,150 kg (15,760 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U. Duration: 196.73 days. Perigee: 378 km (234 mi). Apogee: 394 km (244 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 92.30 min.

    Mir Expedition EO-22. Valeriy Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri of the Russian Space Agency (RKA) Claudie Andre-Deshays of the French space agency CNES. This launch was the first of the Soyuz-U booster with a crew aboard following two launch failures of on unmanned flights. 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.

    On Feb 7 at 16:28:01 GMT the EO-22 crew and American astronaut Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port, flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the rear Kvant port at 16:51:27 GMT. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12.

  • 1996 Aug 18 - Mir News 323: Soyuz-TM24 successfully launched for flight to Mir 

    The Soyuz-TM24 has been launched with the carrier Soyuz-U from Baykonur on 17.08.1996 ...more...

  • 1996 Aug 19 - Mir News 324: Soyuz-TM24 docked at Mir 

    The Soyuz-TM24 docked at Mir on 19.08.1996 at 14.50.21 UTC. Approach and docking ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 2 - Mir News 325: Soyuz-TM23 returned to earth 

    The descent module of the ship Soyuz-TM23 with on board the crew of the 21st ME ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 2 - Landing of Soyuz TM-23 

    The spacecraft undocked on September 2 at 04:20 GMT, and made a small seperation burn at 04:24:40 GMT. Deorbit was at 06:47:20 GMT. The three modules separated at 07:14:36 and the parachute deployed at 07:26 GMT. The landing was at 07:41:40 GMT, 100 km SW of Akmola in Kazakstan with Yuri Onufrienko, Yuriy Usachyov and Claudie Andre-Deshays aboard. This concluded the French 'Cassiopee' mission.

  • 1996 Sep 3 - Mir News 326: Progress-M32 redocked at the Mir space station. 

    Today Progress-M32 concluded her autonomous flight. This flight began on 18.08.1996 ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 12 - Mir News 327: Activities on board Mir 

    The crew has spend a lot of time and efforts to repair an airseal problem in one ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 16 - STS-79  Crew: Blaha, Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Apt, Walz. Spacecraft: Atlantis. Payload: Atlantis F17 / External Airlock/ODS. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 10.14 days. Perigee: 368 km (228 mi). Apogee: 386 km (239 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg. Period: 92.10 min.

    On September 19 Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir space station. Aboard Atlantis in the payload bay were the Orbiter Docking System, the modified Long Tunnel, and the Spacehab Double Module, containing supplies for the Mir. Astronaut John Blaha relieved Shannon Lucid as NASA resident on the complex. Atlantis undocked from the Mir complex on September 23 at 23:33 GMT. Valeriy Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri and John Blaha remain on Mir. On September 26 Atlantis closed its payload bay doors, and at 11:06 GMT fired its OMS engines for a three minute long deorbit burn. After entry interface at 11:42 GMT the spaceship flew across Canada and the US for a landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Runway 15 at 12:13 GMT.

  • 1996 Sep 17 - Mir News 328: Start Atlantis 

    Within 20 minutes after the launch of Atlantis on mission STS-79 on 16.09.1996 at ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 19 - Mir News 329: Atlantis docked at Mir 

    'Readdy was ready' and he controlled the free drift with a speed of appr. 2.5 cm/sec ...more...

  • 1996 Sep 26 - Landing of STS-79 

    STS-79 landed at 12:13 GMT with the crew of Lucid, Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Apt and Walz aboard.


Bibliography and Further Reading
  • McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. Essential internet newsletter recording worldwide weekly space events. Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
  • Vladimirov, A, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Tablitsa zapuskov RN 'Proton' i 'Proton K'", 1998, Issue 10, page 25.
  • Oberg, James, Red Star in Orbit, Random House, New York, 1981. ISBN: 0394514297. Oberg's book was, at its time, the most accurate, and still the most lively account of the Soviet manned program. More at amazon.com...
  • Agapov, V, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Tablitsa zapuskov transportnikh gruzovikh korabley tipa 'Progress' i 'Progress M'", 1998, Issue 7, page 46.
  • NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, .
  • Wilson, Keith T., Spaceflight, "EVA Log 1965-1997", 1998, Volume 40, page 85.
  • Kaesmann, Ferdinand, et. al., Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Proton - Development of A Russian Launch Vehicle", 1998, Volume 51, page 3.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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