| Soyuz TM-32 | |||||||||
| Insignia: | Soyuz TM-32 patch.png | ||||||||
| Operator: | Rosaviakosmos | ||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 2001-017A | ||||||||
| Mission Duration: | 185 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds | ||||||||
| Orbits Completed: | ~3,025 | ||||||||
| Spacecraft Type: | Soyuz-TM | ||||||||
| Manufacturer: | RKK Energia | ||||||||
| Launch Mass: | NaN | ||||||||
| Landing Mass: | NaN | ||||||||
| Launch Date: | UTC | ||||||||
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U | ||||||||
| Landing Date: | UTC | ||||||||
| Landing Site: | Near Arkalyk 46.7494°N 69.7161°W | ||||||||
| Crew Size: | 3 | ||||||||
| Crew Launching: | Talgat Musabayev Yuri Baturin Dennis Tito | ||||||||
| Crew Landing: | Viktor M. Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev | ||||||||
| Crew Callsign: | Криста́лл (Kristall) | ||||||||
| Crew Photo: | ISS-02 Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers.jpg | ||||||||
| Crew Photo Caption: | Soyuz TM-32 Taxi crewmembers in the Zvezda Service Module | ||||||||
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric | ||||||||
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth | ||||||||
| Orbit Periapsis: | 193km (120miles) | ||||||||
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 247km (153miles) | ||||||||
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6 degrees | ||||||||
| Orbit Period: | 88.6 minutes | ||||||||
| Apsis: | gee | ||||||||
| Docking: |
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| Previous Mission: | Soyuz TM-31 | ||||||||
| Next Mission: | Soyuz TM-33 | ||||||||
| Programme: | Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | ||||||||
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.
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.