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Soyuz TM-32
Soyuz TM-32.jpg
TM-32 undocks on October 31st, 2001
Operator Rosaviakosmos
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 (2001-04-28UTC07:37:20Z) UTC
Rocket Soyuz-U
End of mission
Landing date October 31, 2001, 05:00:00 (2001-10-31UTC06Z) UTC
Landing site Near Arkalyk
46°44′58″N 69°42′58″E / 46.74944°N 69.71611°E / 46.74944; 69.71611
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 193 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee 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 patch.png ISS-02 Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers.jpg
Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
← Soyuz TM-31

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.

Crew

Position Launching crew Landing crew
Commander Kazakhstan Talgat Musabayev, RKA
Third and last spaceflight
Russia Viktor M. Afanasyev, RKA
Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer Russia Yuri Baturin, RKA
Second and last spaceflight
France Claudie Haigneré, ESA
Second and last spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer United States Dennis Tito, SA
Only spaceflight
Tourist
Russia Konstantin Kozeyev, RKA
Only spaceflight

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.

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