Soyuz TM-24 carried cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri plus French researcher Claudie André-Deshays to Mir; André-Deshays became the first Frenchwoman in space during the 16-day Cassiopée mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 621st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 August 1996, 13:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-047
- Launches in 1996
- 51st of 77
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