Soyuz TM-32

TM-32 undocks on October 31st, 2001
Operator	Rosaviakosmos
COSPAR ID	2001-017A
SATCAT no.	26749
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 altitude	193 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee altitude	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 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module Soyuz programme (Crewed missions)

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	Talgat Musabayev, RKA Third and last spaceflight	Viktor M. Afanasyev, RKA Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Yuri Baturin, RKA Second and last spaceflight	Claudie Haigneré, ESA Second and last spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer	Dennis Tito, SA Only spaceflight Tourist	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.

External links

• NASA Soyuz-33/Soyuz-32 (return) Taxi Crew