Major General James G. Blunt

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.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Talgat Musabayev, RKA Third and last spaceflight	Viktor M. Afanasyev, RKA Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Yuri Baturin, RKA Second and last spaceflight	Claudie Haigneré, ESA Second and last spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant/Flight Engineer	Dennis Tito, SA Only spaceflight Tourist	Konstantin Kozeyev, RKA Only spaceflight

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 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.

External links

• NASA Soyuz-33/Soyuz-32 (return) Taxi Crew