Subject: mirnews.388
From: "C.M. van den Berg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Gianandrea Redaelli" <[email-masked]>, "dirk rensink" <[email-masked]>, "Dave Larsen" <[email-masked]>, "Jonathan McDowell" <[email-masked]>, "Friends Partners Space" <[email-masked]>, "Mats Rieschel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:34:56 +0100

MIRNEWS.388                                  7  OCTOBER 1997

Progress-M35: The undocking of this freighter failed on 6.10 at 1124UTC. 
Cause was a human error: the crew had forgotten to remove a clamp from the
docking mechanism (the Russian word is 'styazhka', a clamp or spanner to
tighten the docking). The Russians decided to postpone the undocking until
7.10.

On 7.10.1997 at 12.03.47UTC Pr-M35 separated from MIR and after a short
period in which Pr-M35 hovered at a distance of 10 Meters Pr-M35 moved away
for a short autonomous flight.  The decay in the atmosphere over a
designated area in the Pacific East of New Zealand  will take place at
1734UTC. 

Progress-M36: The docking of this freighter at MIR has been put back until
8.10.1997 at 1713UTC.  

Chris Vandenberg, NL-9165/A-UK3202