Overview
STS-84 launched on May 15, 1997 with crew member Mike Foale. He replaced
Mir astronaut John Blaha and spent a total of 134 days in orbit. Foale
returned to Earth with STS-86, on October 6, 1997. Foale's mission proceeded
fairly normally until June 25, when during a test of a manual docking
system, a Progress resupply ship collided with Mir's Spektr module, causing
a depressurization of the space station. The crew closed the hatch to
Spektr, which stabilized the station's air pressure, while Spektr's pressure
dropped to a vacuum. The collision knocked Mir into a spin, at a rate
of about once every six minutes, but the crew members were able to stabilize
the station. Many of Foale's experiments and personal effects were isolated
within Spektr. Fortunately, food, water and other vital Mir supplies were
stored in other modules. In August, Foale's Mir-23 crewmates, Vasily Tsibliev
and Aleksandr Lazutkin, were replaced by Mir-24's Anatoly Solovyev and
Pavel Vinogradov, who arrived in a Soyuz vehicle. Later in the mission,
Foale and Solovyev conducted a 6-hour EVA to inspect the damage to the
punctured Spektr.
Crew
List
Vasily
Tsibliev
Aleksandr Lazutkin
Anatoly
Solovyev
Pavel
Vinogradov
Mike Foale
Crew
Biographies
Mir-23 Weekly Reports
Mir-24 Weekly Reports
Interviews
