Cassiopee

Mission name: Soyuz TM-24
Call sign: Fregat (Frigate)
Number of crew members: 3

Launch:
17 August 1996, 13:18:03 UTC, Baikonur LC1
Landing:
2 March 1997, 06:44:16 UTC, 128 km E of Dzhezkazgan (47.82 N; 69.40 E)
Duration: 196 days, 17 hours, 29 minutes, 13 seconds
Number of orbits: ~3 160

CREW

Launched

• Valery Korzun (1)
• Alexandr Kaleri (2)
• Claudie André-Deshays (1) - ESA France

Landed

• Valery Korzun (1)
• Alexandr Kaleri (2)
• Reinhold Ewald (1) - ESA Germany

(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission

MISSION HIGHLIGHTS

The 27^th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut from France.

The Soyuz TM-24 carried a crew of three to the Mir space station. The crew consisted of Cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Alexander 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.

Andre-Deshays carried out biological and medical experiments on Mir for 16 days before returning to Earth with Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Usachev.