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Soyuz TM-31 - Definition and Overview |
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Soyuz TM-31
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-31
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| Call Sign: | Uran
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| Number of Crew Members: | 3
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| Launch: | October 31, 2000
07:52:47 UTC
Baikonur LC1
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| Landing: | May 6, 2001
05:41:28 UTC
90? km NE of Arkalyk
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| Duration: | 186 days 21 hours 48 minutes 41 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | ~3,040
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Crew
Launched: ISS Expedition 1 crew:
Landed:
Mission Parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 190 km
- Apogee: 249 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
Mission Highlights
6th spaceflight to visit ISS.
Soyuz TM-31 was Russian passenger transportation satellite launched by a Soyuz-U rocket at 07:52 UT. It carried a crew of three to dock it with the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) at about 09:20 UT on 2 November. The Progress M1-3 cargo craft that remains docked with Zvezda will first be evicted to make way for the Soyuz. The crew of two Russian and one American cosmonauts spent over three months in the ISS, and returned to Earth in an American shuttle (STS 102) in February 2001. In the initial days, the crew brought a variety of life support systems on-line, and created a lap-top computer network that helped run all systems in the ISS. The remaining months were allotted for exercise and space endurance practice. The crew was first batch of a decade-long "permanent inhabitation" of the ISS.
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Example Usage of Soyuz |
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ageekmom: @Astro_TJ If @NASA TV isn't streaming your Soyuz ingress before launch, we'll probably be watching 3 yr old file footage ;-p |
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RobertPearlman: Neat shot today of @Astro_TJ, @Astro_Soichi and Oleg Kotov with their Soyuz, via Roscosmos: http://twitpic.com/tr2v5 TMA-17 launches Sunday! |
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ibnuinu: Slavsya otechestvo nashe svobodnoye. Bratskikh narodov Soyuz vekovoy... |
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