Soyuz TM-32

Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian space launch on 28 April, 2001. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies to the International Space Station. This mission was notable for being the craft that took Dennis Tito into space as the first paying space tourist.

Crew

Launched:
* Talgat Musabayev (3) - Commander - Kazakhstan
* Yuri Baturin (2) - Flight Engineer
* Dennis Tito (1) - Spaceflight Participant - USA

Landed:
* Viktor Afanasyev (4) - Commander
* Claudie Haigneré (2) - Flight Engineer - FRA
* Konstantin Kozeyev (1)

(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.

Mission parameters

*Mass: ? kg
*Perigee: 193 km
*Apogee: 247 km
*Inclination: 51.6°
*Period: 88.6 min

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

[http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp3/taxi3/index.html NASA Soyuz-33/Soyuz-32 (return) Taxi Crew]