MIRNEWS.388    7 OCTOBER 1997

Progress-M35:

The undocking of this freighter failed on 6.10 at 1124UTC. Cause was a
human error: the crew had forgotten to remove a clamp from the docking
mechanism (the Russian word is 'styazhka', a clamp or spanner to tighten
the docking). The Russians decided to postpone the undocking until 7.10.
On 7.10.1997 at 12.03.47UTC Pr-M35 separated from MIR and after a short
period in which Pr-M35 hovered at a distance of 10 Meters Pr-M35 moved
away for a short autonomous flight. The decay in the atmosphere over a
designated area in the Pacific East of New Zealand will take place at
1734UTC.

Progress-M36:

The docking of this freighter at MIR has been put back until 8.10.1997 at
1713UTC.

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.