31 lat temu, 15.05.1992, ESA ogłosiła wyniki selekcji 2. grupy astronautów.
Dokładnie 5 lat później, 26 lat temu
Jean-François André Clervoy rozpoczął swój drugi lot kosmiczny.
15.05.1997 o 08:07:48,076 z wyrzutni LC-39A na Cape Canaveral wystartował po raz 19. wahadłowiec Atlantis do misji
STS-84.
17.05.1997 o 02:33:20 po raz 6. wahadłowiec połączył się ze stacją Mir.
22.05.1997 o 01:04 nastąpiło odłączenie wahadłowca od stacji orbitalnej.
24.05.1997 o 13:27:43 Atlantis wylądował na bieżni SLF (RW33) KSC.
Czas lotu: 9d 05g 19m 55s.
Colin Michael Foale pozostał na stacji kosmicznej Mir jako czwarty Amerykanin, a
Jerry Michael Linenger po misji, która trwała 132:04:00:20 powrócił na Ziemię.
W składzie załogi Atlantisa była Rosjanka
Jelena Władimirowna Kondakowa.
W sumie w składzie załogi znalazło się jedynie dwoje astronautów urodzonych w USA (USA 2, Rosja, Francja, Peru, Chiny, Wielka Brytania).
Charles Joseph Precourt został pierwszym Amerykaninem, który odwiedził Mira po raz drugi.
W ładowni wahadłowca zostało umieszczone laboratorium ciśnieniowego Spacehab.
Space Shuttle Flight 84 (STS-84) Post Flight Presentation‘We Just Lit Up the Sky’: 20 Years Since STS-84, Mission of the Six Nations (Part 1)by Ben Evans May 13 2017
(...) When Precourt was assigned to lead STS-84 in February 1996, it soon became clear that he would be the first U.S. astronaut to fly to the Russian station on two occasions, having previously piloted the first shuttle-Mir docking mission. Several months later, in July and August, the seven-strong crew was rounded out with perhaps the most “international” flavor of any shuttle flight. In addition to Eileen Collins, five Mission Specialists—Russia’s Yelena Kondakova, Peru-born Carlos Noriega, Frenchman Jean-Francois Clervoy, Chinese-born Ed Lu and British-born Mike Foale—would launch aboard Atlantis. (...)
This was fitting, because in addition to its Mir docking commitment, STS-84 carried one of the largest hauls of European research payloads ever carried into space. Overseen by Clervoy, who served as the mission’s “payload commander”, a package of European-supplied Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors and the multi-purpose Biorack facility were housed aboard a Spacehab pressurized laboratory in Atlantis’ payload bay. During the course of the mission, lentil roots, single-celled organisms, white blood cells and bone cells, yeast samples, tadpoles and fish embryos were monitored. Elsewhere, solidification processes in transparent liquid alloys were examined. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2017/05/13/we-just-lit-up-the-sky-20-years-since-sts-84-mission-of-the-six-nations-part-1/‘See the Sunrise?’: 20 Years Since STS-84, Mission of the Six Nations (Part 2)by Ben Evans May 13 2017
(...) All told, Atlantis’ astronauts transferred 7,300 pounds (3,320 kg) of equipment and supplies between the shuttle and Mir during the five days of docked operations. Significantly, they delivered a new gyrodyne and a new Elektron oxygen generator, the latter of which had to moved into the space station a day sooner than intended when a pump on the single functioning Elektron went out of action on 17 May 1997. As activities entered high gear, NASA also received a request from the Russians to use Atlantis’ waste water dump nozzles to remove a sizeable quantity of condensate from Mir and thereby free up volume.“
Normally, on board the Mir, they recycle the water,” explained Jim van Laak, then-deputy manager of the shuttle-Mir program for NASA. “The condensate gets cleaned up and used for drinking water, the urine is reclaimed and use in the Elektron system. Because of the leaks they had earlier [in 1997] in the cooling systems, there was some ethylene glycol got into the condensate and they have not been drinking the water.” However, it was decided that procedures were insufficiently defined to attempt the task and NASA did not want to add more work to the STS-84 crew as their docked mission drew to a close. (...)
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