Brigadier General James Monroe Williams

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 Space Station.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Viktor Afanasyev, RKA Fourth and last spaceflight	Yuri Gidzenko, RKA Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Claudie Haigneré, ESA Second and last spaceflight	Roberto Vittori, ESA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer/Spaceflight Participant	Konstantin Kozeyev, RKA Only spaceflight	Mark Shuttleworth, SA Only spaceflight Tourist

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 crewed 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

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