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Soyuz TM 32

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COSPAR ID
  
2001-017A

Spacecraft type
  
Soyuz-TM

Period
  
1.5 hours

Crew size
  
3

Landing date
  
31 October 2001

Orbits completed
  
~3,025

Manufacturer
  
RKK Energia

Dates
  
28 Apr 2001 – 31 Oct 2001

Launch date
  
28 April 2001

Rocket
  
Soyuz-U

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Mission duration
  
185 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds

Launching
  
Talgat Musabayev Yuri Baturin Dennis Tito

Operator
  
Roscosmos State Corporation

Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian spacecraft 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.

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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)
  • 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.

    References

    Soyuz TM-32 Wikipedia