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 | ||||
Landing |
Viktor M. Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev | ||||
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 | ||||
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 | |||||
![]() ![]() Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module
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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.
Crew
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | ![]() Third and last spaceflight |
![]() Fourth and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | ![]() Second and last spaceflight |
![]() Second and last spaceflight |
Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer | ![]() Only spaceflight Tourist |
![]() 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
![](../I/m/Soyuz_TM-32.jpg)
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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Coordinates: 46°44′58″N 69°42′58″E / 46.74944°N 69.71611°E