Soyuz TM-32

Soyuz TM-32

International Flight-No. 222

Mission Insignia
Mission Statistics
Mission Name:	International Flight-No. 222
Call Sign:
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 Template:Coor dms Near Arkalyk
Duration:	185 days, 21 h, 22 min, 40 s
Number of Orbits:	~3,025

Contents [showhide]

1 Crew 2 Mission Parameters 3 Mission Highlights 4 Mission accomplishments 5 Notes

Crew

Launched:

• 1 Talgat Musabayev (3) - Commander
• 2 Yuri Baturin (2) - Flight Engineer
• 3 Dennis Tito (1) - Space tourist

Landed:

• 1 Viktor Afanasyev (4) - Commander
• 2 Claudie Haigneré (2) - Flight Engineer
• 3 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

Mission Highlights

Soyuz TM-32 is a Russian passenger craft that was launched from Baikonur by a Soyuz-U rocket at 07:37: UT, on 28 April 2001. It 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.

Mission accomplishments

• Docked with ISS
• Exchange crew
• Tito pays $20million to become first space tourist
• Returned in Soyuz TM-31, leaving TM-32 behind as new lifeboat

Notes