Soyuz TM-32 was a crewed

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spaceflight which was launched on April 28, 2001, and docked with the

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two days later. It launched the crew of the visiting mission

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, which included the first paying

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, 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

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and later for the crew of

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. In October it landed the crew of

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, who had been launched by

Soyuz TM-33 Soyuz TM-33 was a crewed Russian spaceflight which launched on October 21, 2001, on the Soyuz-U launch vehicle. It carried Russian cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev, Konstantin Kozeyev, and French cosmonaut Claudie Haigneré to the International Sp ...

Crew

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

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undocked. The launched crew stayed for a week and returned in

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, which had been docked to (or nearby) the station since November 2000 functioning as "lifeboat" for the onboard crew (

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and 2). As the new lifeboat for Expedition 2 and later

, 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

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astronaut who had arrived a week earlier in

External links

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