Subject: mirnews.389
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]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 16:27:56 +0100

MIRNEWS.389                               9 OCTOBER 1997

Progress-M36:  

On 8.10 at 17.07.40UTC, so 7 minutes earlier than planned, this freighter
docked at MIR's aft docking port (+X axis).  Approach and docking took
place in the automatic mode by the system Kurs. Solovyov was ready  to take
over manually with TORU in case of a Kurs failure.

During the operation the crew stayed in the Base Block.   

The opening of the hatches was put back until 9.10 at 0830UTC. 

Spacewalks (EVA's):  For a while an external EVA was scheduled for 16.10,
but this plan was cancelled. The first EVA (in fact an IVA) will take place
inside the module Spektr and will be made on  20.10 at 0900UTC. 

Depending on the results of that IVA  the Russians will determine date and
working method for the following EVA.  During that EVA the cosmonauts will
'jettison' the miniature Sputnik, recently  delivered by Progress-M36. 

Radio-amateurtraffic: The Packet radio on 145.985 mc is very active and now
and then this transmitter is used for phone. David Wolf, also using the
call R0MIR, already has a liking for these activities. 

Chris Vandenberg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.