Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 // MD 76/25 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The second IVA into Spektr was conducted today, and the crew connected two of the three cables for the solar array orientation system to the hermaplate on the hatch. They were unable to make one of the connections due to difficulties with access, so one of the three undamaged arrays will not be steerable. The MOST is attempting […]
NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 19, 1997// MD 75/24 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The Progress vestibule was successfully depressurized today. The station was commanded to free drift at DMT 11:37 this morning, and the crew then removed the Progress clamps and closed the Kvant-1 hatch. The depress was started at 13:05, and by the end of the comm pass the pressure had dropped to 37 mm. The valve was […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 5, 1997 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 61/10 Mir 24 CDR Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE Pavel Vinogradov NASA 6 FE Dave Wolf Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities In preparation for tomorrow’s undocking, the crew closed the hatch to Progress and performed leak checks today and also performed a TORU checkout. Progress M-36 launched successfully early […]