MIRNEWS.290 22 FEBRUARY 1996 In March the American woman astronaut Shannon Lucid will join them after the docking of the shuttle Atlantis. Radiocommunications: Already during the first pass over here after the launch radiotraffic revealed that all was well on board: the condition of the 2 kosmonauts was excellent and all systems worked flawlessly. 2 orbitcorrections took place during the 3d orbit: at 1408 and 1428UTC. The last impuls lasted 1 min and 3 secs. Planned dockingtime: If all goes according to wishes the S-TM23 will dock to the aft axial dockingport (+X, Kvant-1) of the MIR-complex on 23.02.1996 at 1420UTC; planned opening of the hatches on 1550UTC. Progress-M30: This freighter had to free the aft docking port ... Soyuz-TM23 launched: On 21.02.1996 at 12hrs 34mins 5secs the transportship Soyuz-TM23 was launched for a 2-days flight to the MIR-spacestation. The crew consists of the commander Yuriy Onufrienko and the boardengineer Yuriy Usachov. Onufrienko makes his first spa ceflight; for Usachov this is the 2d flight. The reliefcrew is the crew for the 21st Main Expedition to MIR. They will relie ve the crew of the 20st M.E. So foOne observer in Belgium saw the 3d stage but also the S-TM23. He logged 1841UTC for the S-TM23. Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.