Subject: One Mir asp. crewmember ill
From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:53:27 +0100

No bulletins from you Jonathan. Holidays or power failure at JSR & havard?
Below new Mirnews.form Chris. One of the crewmeber is ill.

  MIRNEWS.321                             13 AUGUST 1996
  
  22d Main Expedition to MIR:
  
  Due to serious hearth rhythm problems  Manakov, the
  commander of the main crew,  had to be hospitalized.  So
  the core crew has been replaced by the stand ins. The
  French spacionaute Claudie Andre-Deshays will stay in the
  main crew.
  The crew of the 22d ME  will consist of:
  Valeriy  Grigoryevich Korzun  (Commander),   Aleksandr
  Yuryevich Kaleri (boardengineer) and Claudie Andre-
  Deshays, (cosmonaut-researcher, guest cosmonaut CNES. )
  Vinogradov and Leopold Eyharts remain available for the
  eventual replacement of respectively Kaleri and/or Andre-
  Deshays.  There is no reserve commander available.  
  
  Launch of Soyuz-TM24:  The launch of this ship with the
  above mentioned crewmembers  has been put forward and
  will now take place from Baykonur on 17.08.1996 at abt
  1317UTC. 
  
  The service callsign of the crew is FREGAT,  so resp.
  Fregat-1. -2 and -3).
  
  The names of the new crew and the earlier launchdate had
  been given by a recorded message of Shannon Lucid
  transmitted from MIR on 437.925 mc.
  
  Progress-M31: As already has been reported this freighter
  ceased  her existence on 1.08.1996. 
  The exact times of this operation were:
  Separation from MIR:  16.44.45UTC,   start reentry burn: 
  19.44.30UTC and burning up over a  designated area in the
  Pacific East of New Zealand: 2033UTC.
  
  Progress-M32: This freighter is still docked at MIR. If
  the launch and first part of the flight of Soyuz-TM24
  will proceed as planned  Pr-32 will undock from MIR on
  18.08.1996 and burn up in the atmosphere.
  
  Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.