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![]() TM-32 undocks on October 31st, 2001 | |
Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 2001-017A |
SATCAT no. | 26749 ![]() |
Mission duration | 185 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~3,025 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | Talgat Musabayev Yuri Baturin Dennis Tito |
Landing | Viktor M. Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev |
Callsign | Криста́лл (Kristall) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | April 28, 2001, 07:37:20 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
End of mission | |
Landing date | October 31, 2001, 05:00:00 UTC |
Landing site | Near Arkalyk 46°44′58″N69°42′58″E / 46.74944°N 69.71611°E |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 247 kilometres (153 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.6 minutes |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zarya nadir |
Docking date | 30 April 2001 07:58 UTC |
Undocking date | 19 October 2001 10:48 UTC |
Time docked | 172d 2h 50m |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Pirs nadir |
Docking date | 19 October 2001 11:04 UTC |
Undocking date | 31 October 2001 01:38 UTC |
Time docked | 11d 14h 34m |
![]() ![]() Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-32 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight which was launched on April 28,2001,and docked with the International Space Station two days later. It launched the crew of the visiting mission ISS EP-1,which included the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito,as well as two Russian cosmonauts. The Soyuz TM-32 remained docked to the station until October;during this time it served as the lifeboat for the crew of Expedition 2 and later for the crew of Expedition 3. In October it landed the crew of ISS EP-2,who had been launched by Soyuz TM-33.
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | ![]() Third and last spaceflight | ![]() Fourth and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | ![]() Second and last spaceflight | ![]() Second and last spaceflight |
Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer | ![]() Only spaceflight Tourist | ![]() Only spaceflight |
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.