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Kari Fluegel
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
RELEASE: 94-172
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The Phase One activities began in early 1994 with the flight of
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev on board the STS-60 mission. The Phase One
activities will pick up speed in 1995 beginning with a rendezvous and
fly-around of the Mir station by the Shuttle Discovery during the
STS-63 mission, currently scheduled for launch in February. The
mission also features the flight of Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov, who has
been training at JSC for the last year.
Thagard's mission will end in late May or early June 1995 when
the Space Shuttle Atlantis, carrying the newly installed docking
mechanism, docks with Mir for the first U.S.-Russian docking operation
since Apollo-Soyuz in 1975. The orbiter will remain attached to Mir
for five days of joint scientific operations before returning home
with Thagard and his Russian crewmates. Two cosmonauts will remain on
Mir.
Later in the year, during STS-74, Atlantis will revisit Mir to
install a new docking module on the station to improve the ease of
future joint operations. In total, Phase One includes a minimum of
seven missions to Mir and calls for the flight of five astronauts on
the Russian station for a cumulative U.S. crew time of approximately
two years.
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