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Month: April 1997
Letter From Frank Culbertson to Valery Ryumin Regarding Flight Readiness Review

Apr 22 1997 Valery Ryumin RSC Energiya 4 Lenin Street Kaliningrad Moscow Region, 141070 RUSSIA Greetings, Valeri! The information you have sent us recently on the Mir systems status, plans for repair, and the consumables status has been very helpful in preparing for the upcoming Flight Readiness Reviews. I would like, However, for us to be able to present a joint picture of the Russian criteria for mission continuation and […]

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  • April 22, 1997
Mir Status Report 14 April 1997

NASA MIR 4 mission, MD 93-96 (Edited) Date: 14 April 1997 / Mission Day 93 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities KOB-2 Loop Leak Repair (entire crew) Mission Science Payload Activities: QUELD Sample E-13;DOZA – TLD Processing Stowage/Transfer The crew reported the failed solid oxygen generator as well as the cut-out segments of the thermal pipes have been packed in ziplock bags in preparation for their return on STS-84. The crew also […]

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  • April 14, 1997
Mir Status Report 13 April 1997

NASA MIR PROGRAM Mir 23 / NASA 4 Status Date: 13 April 1997 Mission Day: Mir 23 / NASA 4 MD 63 / 92 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Mir IFM Repair (entire crew) Rest (entire crew) SMP/Medical: per day according to the first day of the exercise Cyclogram (treadmill and expanders). A radiogram from the Russian medical group has been prepared for uplink today or tomorrow, recommending that the commander […]

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  • April 13, 1997
Mir Status Report 12 April 1997

NASA MIR PROGRAM Mir 23 / NASA 4 Status Date: 12 April 1997 Mission Day: Mir 23 / NASA 4 MD 62 / 91 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Elektron maintenance Condensate Presence Check of Mir (Mir 23) Wet Cleanup (entire crew) Mission Science Payload Activities Sleep Study Final Ops and Stowage (NASA 4)BTS Filter Check (NASA 4) SMP/Medical The crew requested to have their MK-12, Reflotron blood analysis data voiced […]

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  • April 12, 1997
Mir Status Report 11 April 1997

Mir 23 / NASA 4 Status (edited) Date: 11 April 1997 / Mission Day: 90 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities IFM’s (entire crew) Mission Science Payload Activities Sleep Study (NASA 4) CSST (NASA 4) PAO: Press Conference held today between Jerry and reporters from JSC/KSC. Comm quality was spotty with a late start due to Mir-related discussions and a two-minute comm dropout. It was also terminated two minutes early by the […]

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  • April 11, 1997
Mir Status Report 10 April 1997

Date: 10 April 1997 / Mission Day 89 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities: IFM’s (entire crew) Mir Systems 1. Jerry and Vasily (Tsibliev) completed removal of the leaking heat exchanger in Kvant, while Sasha (Lazutkin) worked on the Elektron filter bypass in Kvant II. 2. The pressure check of the Kvant VGK cooling loop showed the pressure decreased from 900 mmHg to 770 mmHg in 30 minutes. By the next pass, […]

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  • April 10, 1997
Shuttle Mir Science Program Status Report 3-9 April 1997

Shuttle Mir Science Program / NASA 4 / Mir 23 Status Date: April 3, 1997 – April 9, 1997 Mission Days: 82-88 (NASA 4) / 53-59 (Mir 23) Mir Systems Telemetry – The OMOTsAO unit failed yesterday; this device stores uplinked executable commands, in particular, the command for the MIPS downlink. That means that there will be no MIPS downlink available until the system is repaired. Repair activities on this […]

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  • April 9, 1997
Mir Status Report 9 April 1997

Date: 9 April 1997 / Mission Day: 88 Experiment Operations: Victor Blagov informed us Energia management has set a deadline of the 15th of April to successfully complete the maintenance activities. If these activities are not finished, then the EVA may be in jeopardy. Furthermore, he requested we clear Jerry’s calendar of science through Friday, 11 April, to permit him to work on the maintenance activity. As a result, Jerry […]

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  • April 9, 1997
Mir Status Report 8 April 1997

Date: 8 April 1997 // Mission Day 87 Mir Systems 1. Progress 234 – At 19:05 DMT, the crew was informed that ground commands to activate the two TORU (manual docking system) transmitters onboard Progress 234 were unsuccessful. The decision was made for one attempt using the Automatic Docking System. By 20:23 DMT the TORU transmitters were reported to be up and functioning. 2. Successful Auto-docking occurred at 20:30 DMT; […]

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  • April 8, 1997
Mir Status Report 3 April 1997

Date: 3 April 1997 / Mission Day 82 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Replace PTAB Unit #2 in Priroda Clean Mir power connectors x-301 and x-302 Mir Systems Mr. Blagov reported the Vosdukh (CO2 Removal System) was shutdown due to a lack of thermal control from the VGK system in the core module. Some time ago, the core module’s VGK and KOH-1V loops (which were originally independent loops) were re-plumbed to […]

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  • April 3, 1997