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Soyuz TM-32
Soyuz TM-32
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| Mission Name: | International Flight-No. 222 |
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| 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 Near Arkalyk |
| Duration: | 185 days, 21 h, 22 min, 40 s |
| Number of Orbits: | ~3,025 |
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Crew
Launched:
- 1 Talgat Musabayev (3) - Commander
- 2 Yuri Baturin (2) - Flight Engineer
- 3 Dennis Tito (1) - Space tourist
Landed:
- 1 Viktor Afanasyev (4) - Commander
- 2 Claudie Haigneré (2) - Flight Engineer
- 3 Konstantin Kozeyev (1)
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Mission Parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 193 km
- Apogee: 247 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 min
Mission Highlights
Soyuz TM-32 is a Russian passenger craft that was launched from Baikonur by a Soyuz-U rocket at 07:37: UT, on 28 April 2001. It carried a three man crew (two Russian 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 30 April, just a few hours after the shuttle STS 100 undocked. The crew stayed for a week.
Mission accomplishments
- Docked with ISS
- Exchange crew
- Tito pays $20million to become first space tourist
- Returned in Soyuz TM-31, leaving TM-32 behind as new lifeboat
Notes
| Previous Mission: Soyuz TM-31 |
Soyuz programme | Next Mission: Soyuz TM-33 |
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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