MIRNEWS.378                       17 AUGUST 1997
Progress-M35: The redocking of this 'old' supplyship at the MIR complex did 
not take place on 17.08. During the first 3
 passes of both objects it was obvious that Pr-M35 was continuing her 
autonomous flight. During the second pass the dep uty head of mission 
control, Viktor Blagov, told the crew about  changes in the workschedule for 
the next 2 days.  The IVA would  remain on schedule for 20.08.97.  
Reason postponement:  The data for the approach of Pr-M35 today transmitted 
by TsUP to the Pr-M35  turned out to be wro ng and Pr-M35's OBC shut itself 
off. At deadline for this report the docking of Pr-M35 at MIR was (still) 
planned for 1 8.08 at 1257UTC. 
Soyuz-TM26: The redocking of this transportship from the aft to the forward 
docking port took place on 15.08.97 between
 13.29.20 and 14.13.04UTC. At 1327UTC, so  just before separation, 
radiotraffic from S-TM26 via Altair-2 could be heard .  The safety clamps of 
the dockingmechanism had been loosened and the program was proceeding 
according to plan. At 13. 29.20UTC Solovyov reported the separation and the 
fact that S-TM26 was slowly moving away from MIR.  S. steered S-TM26 in the 
manual mode to  be able to adjust the attitude of the ship  in such a way  
that Vinogradov and Foale could  make
 good images of the 'damage areas'.  At 13.29.51UTC Altair-2 transmitted an 
image of the whole complex seen by  a camer a of  the ship. 
At 13.35.59UTC S.  reported  the proceedings of the flight. He asked Foale 
whether he already was doing his photo- and video work and asked him for 
instructions to adjust the ship's attitude for the best images.  
Communications via Altair -2 ceased at 13.42.58UTC, but a few minutes later 
S. could be heard via 121.750 mc (1401-1409UTC).  4 minutes later S. 
accomplished  a perfect docking at the forward (P.Kh.O. - transition section) 
port of the complex. 
Back on board MIR S. told TsUP that the images they had made were very good  
and certainly useful for analyses. In a co nversation with Earth Foale told 
that they intended to transmit these images to TsUP  on 18.08 and he was sure 
that TV stations all over the world  would retransmit these. 
(The TV shots which already had been shown by TV stations came from short 
direct links with Russian trackingstations.)
Elektron: Already on the day of the return of the relieved crew Vinogradov 
succeeded in restoring the Elektron oxygen g enerator in Kvant-1. It was very 
difficult to reach the spot where he had to clean Elektron.  A white-brown 
jelly-like substance had stopped up a pipe inside Elektron and had to be 
cleaned. After purging this pipe he was able to restart E lektron and after 1 
orbit Solovyov reported that Elektron was working normally. As far as could 
be derived from radiotr affic Elektron still does thusfar. 
Chris Vandenberg, NL-9165/A-UK3202
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