Soyuz TM-24 was the 27th expedition to
Mir. Soyuz TM-24 carried a crew of three. The crew consisted of Cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, and the first French woman in space,
Claudie André-Deshays. They joined American astronaut
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including ...
and Mir 21 crewmates
Yuri Onufriyenko
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko (russian: Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко, ua, Юрій Іванович Онуфрієнко; born 6 February 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboa ...
and
Yuri Usachev. André-Deshays carried out biological and medical experiments on Mir for 16 days (the ''Cassiopée'' mission) before returning to Earth with Onufriyenko and Usachev.
Crew
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Crewed Soyuz missions
Spacecraft launched in 1996