Command Pilot:

Talgat Musabayev

(RKA Third Space Flight)

Yuri Baturin

(RKA Second Space Flight Engineer)

Dennis Tito

(SA First Space Flight) (Tourist)

Viktor M. Afanasyev Commander

(RKA Fourth Space Flight) (Landing)

Claudie Haignere

(ESA Second Space Flight Engineer)

Konstantin Kozeyev

(RKA First Space Flight) Partisipant/Tourist

Backup Crew: Commander:
Sergei Victorovich ZALETIN
Nadezhda Vasilievna KUZHELNAYA Flight engineer

TM-32 was a manned Russian spacecraft which was launched on April 28, 2001, and docked with the International Space Station two days later. It launched the crew of the visiting missionISS-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-23.

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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 (Xepedition 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.

TM-32 undocks on October 31st, 2001

Soyuz TM-32 prior to docking

Key Objectives: putting Visiting Crew 2 into orbit on-board Soyuz TM-33 spacecraft;
planned replacement of Souyz TM-32 which has been functioning as a crew rescue vehicle within ISS since April 30, 2001;
conducting on-board the space station a work package under the program of the visit: experiments under "Russian program" - "Uragan", "Diatomea", "Plasma crystal": research program "Andromeda" under a contract with French national center for space research (CNES); contractual work with "Globus Space" company ("Lok" project);
providing maintenance support for ISS-3 crew mission;
return of Visiting Crew 2 on-board Soyuz TM-32.