Soyuz TM-32
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Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian space launch on 28 April 2001. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies tp the International Space Station. This mission gained notoriety by being the craft that took Dennis Tito into space as the first paying space tourist.
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-32 |
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| Spacecraft Name: | Soyuz TM-32 |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | April 28, 2001 07:37:20 UT Baikonur, Pad 1 |
| Landing: | October 31, 2001 05:00:00 UT Near Arkalyk |
| Duration: | 185 days, 21 h, 22 min, 40 s |
| Number of Orbits: | ~3,025 |
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[edit] Crew
Launched:
- Talgat Musabayev (3) - Commander - Kazakhstan
- Yuri Baturin (2) - Flight Engineer - Russia
- Dennis Tito (1) - Spaceflight Participant - U.S.A.
Landed:
- Viktor Afanasyev (4) - Commander - Russia
- Claudie Haigneré (2) - Flight Engineer - France
- Konstantin Kozeyev (1) - Russia
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 193 km
- Apogee: 247 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 min
[edit] 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)
[edit] Mission highlights
TM-32 carried a three man crew (two Russian 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 30 April, just a few hours after the shuttle STS-100 undocked. The crew stayed for a week.
[edit] Mission accomplishments
- Docked with ISS
- Dennis Tito pays $20 million to become first space tourist
- Returned in Soyuz TM-31, leaving TM-32 behind as new lifeboat
[edit] Notes
| Previous Mission: Soyuz TM-31 |
Soyuz programme | Next Mission: Soyuz TM-33 |
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| STS-88 | STS-96 | STS-101 | STS-106 | STS-92 | Soyuz TM-31 | STS-97 | STS-98 | STS-102 | STS-100 | Soyuz TM-32 | STS-104 | STS-105 | Soyuz TM-33 | STS-108 | STS-110 | Soyuz TM-34 | STS-111 | STS-112 | Soyuz TMA-1 | STS-113 | Soyuz TMA-2 | Soyuz TMA-3 | Soyuz TMA-4 | Soyuz TMA-5 | Soyuz TMA-6 | STS-114 | Soyuz TMA-7 | Soyuz TMA-8 | STS-121 | STS-115 | STS-116 | |
| In progress: Soyuz TMA-9 | Soyuz TMA-10 | |
| Upcoming: STS-117 | STS-118 | STS-120 | |
