MIRNEWS.321    13 AUGUST 1996

22d Main Expedition to MIR:

Due to serious hearth rhythm problems Manakov, the
commander of the main crew, had to be hospitalized. So
the core crew has been replaced by the stand ins. The
French spacionaute Claudie Andre-Deshays will stay in the
main crew.
The crew of the 22d ME will consist of:
Valeriy Grigoryevich Korzun (Commander), Aleksandr
Yuryevich Kaleri (boardengineer) and Claudie Andre-
Deshays, (cosmonaut-researcher, guest cosmonaut CNES.)
Vinogradov and Leopold Eyharts remain available for the
eventual replacement of respectively Kaleri and/or Andre-
Deshays. There is no reserve commander available.

Launch of Soyuz-TM24:

The launch of this ship with the
above mentioned crewmembers has been put forward and
will now take place from Baykonur on 17.08.1996 at abt 1317UTC.

The service callsign of the crew is FREGAT, so resp.
Fregat-1. -2 and -3).

The names of the new crew and the earlier launchdate had
been given by a recorded message of Shannon Lucid
transmitted from MIR on 437.925 mc.

Progress-M31:

As already has been reported this freighter
ceased her existence on 1.08.1996.
The exact times of this operation were:
Separation from MIR: 16.44.45UTC, start reentry burn: 
19.44.30UTC and burning up over a designated area in the
Pacific East of New Zealand: 2033UTC.

Progress-M32:

This freighter is still docked at MIR.
If the launch and first part of the flight of Soyuz-TM24
will proceed as planned Pr-32 will undock from MIR on
18.08.1996 and burn up in the atmosphere.

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