Soyuz TM-32 facts for kids
TM-32 undocks on October 31st, 2001
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| Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
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| 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 | |
| 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) |
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| 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
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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.
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Crew
| Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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| Commander |  Talgat Musabayev, RKAThird and last spaceflight |
 Viktor M. Afanasyev, RKAFourth and last spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer | Yuri Baturin, RKA Second and last spaceflight |
 Claudie Haigneré, ESASecond and last spaceflight |
| Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer |  Dennis Tito, SAOnly 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.
See also
In Spanish: Soyuz TM-32 para niños
