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NASA
New Cosmonauts, Old Station
News story originally written on August 13, 1997
Two Mir crewmember are heading home after an eventful stay on the space
station. Cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin are leaving
Mir early Thursday morning for a three hour trip home to Russia. They are
being replaced by Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, who arrived on
the station last week. U.S. astronaut Mike Foale is staying until
September.
The new crewmembers are going to try and repair the damage caused by the
collision in June. They were
going to do a spacewalk inside the damaged lab module on August 20th to
try and restore more of the station's power. Unfortunately, the spacewalk has been postponed due to a main computer breakdown.
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