Soyuz TM-33

Crew

Launched:
*Viktor Afanasyev (4)
*Claudie Haigneré (2) - ESA - FRA
*Konstantin Kozeyev (1)

Landed:
*Yuri Gidzenko (3)
*Roberto Vittori (1) - ESA Italy
*Mark Shuttleworth (1) - Spaceflight Participant - South Africa

Mission parameters

*Mass: ? kg
*Perigee: 191 km
*Apogee: 227 km
*Inclination: 51.6°
*Period: 88.4 min

Docking with ISS

*Docked to ISS: October 23, 2001, 10:44 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
*Undocked from ISS: April 20, 2002, 09:16 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)
*Docked to ISS: April 20, 2002, 09:37 UTC (to Pirs module)
*Undocked from ISS: May 5, 2002, 00:31 UTC (from Pirs module)

Mission highlights

14th manned mission to ISS.

Soyuz TM-33 is a Russian astronaut-transporting spacecraft that was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 08:59 UT on 21 October 2001. It carried two Russian and one French astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked with the ISS at 10:44 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 04:59 UT on 31 October. The new Soyuz remained docked as a lifeboat craft for the then current crew of three (two Russian and one American) astronauts.

External links

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

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