Monday, October 7, 2002

Soyuz TM-32

 2001-017A


Souuz TM 206 (ISS 2S) was the first taxi flight, with the MKS-T1 crew (Kristall). EP-1 (orig MirCorp Citizen Explorer flight) with Dennis Tito, a rich investment management executive and former JPL trajectory guy. Commander was Talgat Musabaev and BI was Yuriy Baturin.

During reentry, the crew were subjected to 7g instead of the planned 4.8g. One rumour said the astronauts armed the deorbit engine later than intended, but official Russian statements indicated an error in the loaded guidance commands causing an incorrect entry angle.

 


Soyuz TM-32 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Apr 28  0737:20  Launch by Soyuz-U No 674  KB PU5 
 0746:06  Blok I sep 
 1119:32  TCM1 49 kg 19.3m/s 
 1129:48  TCM2 75 kg 29.5m/s 
2001 Apr 29   0.8m/s TCM 
2001 Apr 30  0730  Rendezvous with ISS 
 0757:47  Docking Zarya -Z port
 0928  HO to ISS 
2001 Oct 19  0620  HC to ISS; EX-3 aboard  
 1048:10  Soyuz undocked from Zarya 
 1058  Begin lateral move 
 1102  Approach 
 1104:10  Dock with Pirs 
 1240? HO to ISS 
2001 Oct 30  2237  HC to ISS 
2001 Oct 31  0138:30  Undocked from Pirs 
 0142  Sep burn 8s 0.7m/s 
 0404:10  Deorbit 4:12 115.2m/s 
 0407  Deorbit MECO  88.39 5? x 384 x 51.6 
 0430?  Modules sep 
 0459:26  Landed

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