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.

Soyuz TM-32
Mission Insignia

Mission Statistics
Mission Name: Soyuz TM-32
Call Sign:  
Spacecraft Name: Soyuz TM-32
Number of Crew Members: 3
Launch: April 28, 2001
07:37:20 UT
Baikonur, Pad 1
Landing: October 31, 2001
05:00:00 UT
46°44′58″N, 69°42′58″E
Near Arkalyk
Duration: 185 days, 21 h, 22 min, 40 s
Number of Orbits: ~3,025

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[edit] Crew

Launched:

Landed:

(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

[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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