Soyuz TM-32
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Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian space launch on 28 April 2001. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies to the International Space Station. This mission was notable for being the craft that took Dennis Tito into space as the first paying space tourist.
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-32 |
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| Spacecraft Name: | Soyuz TM-32 |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | April 28, 2001 07:37:20 UT Gagarin's Start |
| Landing: | October 31, 2001 05:00:00 UT Near Arkalyk |
| Duration: | 185 days, 21 h, 22 min, 40 s |
| Number of Orbits: | ~3,025 |
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[edit] Crew
Launched:
- Talgat Musabayev (3) - Commander - Kazakhstan
- Yuri Baturin (2) - Flight Engineer
- Dennis Tito (1) - Spaceflight Participant -
United States
Landed:
- Viktor Afanasyev (4) - Commander
- Claudie Haigneré (2) - Flight Engineer -
France - Konstantin Kozeyev (1)
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 193 km
- Apogee: 247 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 min
[edit] Docking with ISS
- Docked to ISS: April 30, 2001, 07:58 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
- Undocked from ISS: October 19, 2001, 10:48 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)
- Docked to ISS: October 19, 2001, 11:04 UTC (to Pirs module)
- Undocked from ISS: October 31, 2001, 01:38 UTC (from Pirs module)
[edit] Mission highlights
TM-32 carried a three man crew (two Russians and one American, the latter not a professional astronaut) to the International Space Station, ISS. It docked automatically with the ISS at 07:57 UT on April 30, 2001, just a few hours after the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-100 undocked. The launched crew stayed for a week and returned in Soyuz TM-31, which had been docked to (or nearby) the station since November 2000 functioning as "lifeboat" for the onboard crew (Expedition 1 and 2).
As the new lifeboat for Expedition 2 and later Expedition 3, TM-32 stayed docked at the station for six months (except for a brief move between docking ports) and finally, on October 31, brought home two cosmonauts and an ESA astronaut who had arrived a week earlier in Soyuz TM-33.
[edit] External links
NASA Soyuz-33/Soyuz-32 (return) Taxi Crew
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