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Soyuz TM-33
| Mission Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-33 |
| Call Sign: | Derbent |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | October 21, 2001 08:59:35 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | May 5, 2002 03:51:53 UTC 26 km SE of Arkalyk |
| Duration: | 195 days 18 hours 52 minutes 18 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | ~3,195 |
Crew
Launched:
- Viktor Afanasyev (4)
- Claudie Haigneré (2) - CNES (France)
- Konstantin Kozeyev (1)
Landed:
- Yuri Gidzenko (3)
- Roberto Vittori (1) - ESA (Italy)
- Mark Shuttleworth (1) - Space Tourist (South Africa)
Mission Parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 191 km
- Apogee: 227 km
- Inclination: 51.7°
- Period: 88.4 minutes
Mission Highlights
14th manned mission to ISS.
Soyuz TM-33 is a Russian astronaut-transporting spacecraft that was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 08:59 UT on 21 October 2001. It carried two Russian and one French astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked with the ISS at 10:00 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 03:59 UT on 31 October. The new Soyuz remained docked as a lifeboat craft for the then current crew of three (two Russian and one American) astronauts.
| Previous Mission: Soyuz TM-32 |
Soyuz programme | Next Mission: Soyuz TM-34 |
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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