MIRNEWS.220

Progress-M24:

The launch of this freighter has been put back.
Originally 2 Progress-M's had to be launched in the period
july/august 1994. The Russians had to give up one of the Pr-Ms
for economical reasons. Now the Progress-M24 is on schedule
to be launched on 24.08.94.
Pr-M24 will deliver the normal cargo to the MIR-complex plus
the equipment to be used by an European cosmonaut (Ulf Merbold
or Pedro Duque) during the EuroMir94 mission in october 1994.

Soyuz-TM19:

This ship is still docked to the aft (Kvant-1)
port of the MIR-station. Contrary to the normal practice STM19
will not be redocked to the forward (PKhO) docking port
of the complex.

EuroMir94:

The Soyuz-TM20 with on board the reliefcrew (Vikto
renko and Kondakova or the stand-in crew Gidzhenko and Avdey
ev) with an ESA-cosmonaut (Ulf Merbold or Pedro Duque) is on
schedule for launch on 3.10.94. The European cosmonaut will
remain on board MIR for a period of 30 days. The training of
the crews takes place in Starcity near Moscow as well as in
the European Astronaut Centre of ESA in Cologne. In Moscow
they have to study the Russian language and to get familiar
with the Soyuz-TM and the MIR-spacestation and its modules
and in Cologne the training is aimed at the European experi
ments, which for the greater part will cover life-sciences,
i.e. monitoring the human body in microgravity conditions.

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.