Operator | Rosaviakosmos | ||||
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COSPAR ID | 2001-048A | ||||
Mission duration | 195 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes, 18 seconds | ||||
Orbits completed | ~3,195 | ||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM | ||||
Manufacturer | RKK Energia | ||||
Crew | |||||
Crew size | 3 | ||||
Launching |
Viktor Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev |
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Landing |
Yuri Gidzenko Roberto Vittori Mark Shuttleworth |
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Callsign | Uran | ||||
Start of mission | |||||
Launch date | October 21, 2001, 08:59:35 | UTC||||
Rocket | Soyuz-U | ||||
End of mission | |||||
Landing date | May 5, 2002, 03:51:53 | UTC||||
Landing site | 26 kilometres (16 mi) SE of Arkalyk | ||||
Orbital parameters | |||||
Reference system | Geocentric | ||||
Regime | Low Earth | ||||
Perigee | 191 kilometres (119 mi) | ||||
Apogee | 227 kilometres (141 mi) | ||||
Inclination | 51.7 degrees | ||||
Period | 88.4 minutes | ||||
Docking with ISS | |||||
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Soyuz TM-33 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module
Soyuz TM-33 was a manned Russian space launch on Oct 21, 2001, on the Soyuz-U launch vehicle. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies to the International Space Station.
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 10:44 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 04:59 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.