Soyuz TM-32
| Operator | Rosaviakosmos | ||||
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| COSPAR ID | 2001-017A | ||||
| 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 |
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| Landing |
Viktor M. Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev |
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| Callsign | Криста́лл (Kristall) | ||||
| Start of mission | |||||
| Launch date | April 28, 2001, 07:37:20 UTC | ||||
| Rocket | Soyuz-U | ||||
| End of mission | |||||
| Landing date | October 31, 2001, 05:00:00 UTC | ||||
| Landing site | Near Arkalyk 46°44′58″N 69°42′58″E / 46.74944°N 69.71611°E |
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| 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 | ||||
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Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module
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.
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).
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