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![]() Soyuz TM-31 launch | |
Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Russian Space Agency |
COSPAR ID | 2000-070A |
SATCAT no. | 26603 ![]() |
Mission duration | 186 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes, 41 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~3,040 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No.205 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | Yuri Gidzenko Sergei Krikalev William Shepherd |
Landing | Talgat Musabayev Yuri Baturin Dennis Tito |
Callsign | Uran |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | October 31, 2000, 07:52:47 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | May 6, 2001, 05:41:28 UTC |
Landing site | 90 kilometres (56 mi) NE of Arkalyk ( 50°38′42″N66°43′54″E / 50.64500°N 66.73167°E ) |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 190 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 249 kilometres (155 mi) |
Inclination | 51.57° |
Period | 88.6 minutes |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 2 November 2000, 09:21:03 UTC |
Undocking date | 24 February 2001, 10:06 UTC |
Time docked | 114 days, 44 minutes |
Docking with ISS (relocation) | |
Docking port | Zarya nadir |
Docking date | 24 February 2001,10:37 UTC |
Undocking date | 18 April 2001,12:40 UTC |
Time docked | 53 days,2 hours,3 minutes |
Docking with ISS (relocation) | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 18 April 2001,13:01 UTC |
Undocking date | 6 May 2001,02:21:09 UTC |
Time docked | 17 days,13 hours,20 minutes |
![]() ![]() Crew launching,from left:Krikalev,Shepherd and Gidzenko Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-31 was the first Soyuz spaceflight to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). [1] The spacecraft carried the members of Expedition 1,the first long-duration ISS crew. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:52 UT on October 31,2000,by a Soyuz-U rocket.
The crew consisted of Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev,and American William Shepherd. Gidzenko was commander of the flight up,but once aboard the station,Shepherd became commander of the long-duration mission Expedition 1. [2] It is notable for beginning the continuous occupation of space from October 31,2000 to the present. [3]
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | ![]() Expedition 1 Second spaceflight | ![]() ISS EP-1 Third and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | ![]() Expedition 1 Fifth spaceflight | ![]() ISS EP-1 Second and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer/Spaceflight Participant | ![]() Expedition 1 Fourth and last spaceflight | ![]() ISS EP-1 First spaceflight Tourist |