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Mir's current three-man crew is charged with making much-needed repairs to the ailing space station. Veteran cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov arrived on Mir in August replacing Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. U.S. astronaut David Wolf began his four months stay on Mir in late September.
Col. Anatoly Solovyov
Mir 24 Flight Commander
Age: 49
Residence: Star City, Russia
Training: Senior pilot and group commander in the Far Eastern Military District 1972-1976; Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School; Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Prior Missions: Four missions to Mir since 1988
Boarded Mir: August 7, 1997
Pavel Vinogradov
Mir 24 Flight Engineer
Age: 43
Residence: Star City, Russia
Training: Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Prior Missions: none
Boarded Mir: August 7, 1997
David Wolf
Mission Specialist
Age: 41
Residence: Houston, Texas
Training: A native of Indiana, Wolf graduated from Purdue University and received his medical degree from Indiana University in 1982. He is a USAF senior flight surgeon in the Air National Guard and has logged over 2000 hours of flight time including air combat training as a weapons systems officer.
Expertise: Designer of real time computer process control systems, communications, bioprocessing, physiology, fluid dynamics, and aerospace medicine. He is qualified for spacewalks.
Previous Missions: Mission Specialist astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-58) in 1993.
Boarded Mir: September 28, 1997
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