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Soyuz TM-33 - Definition and Overview

Soyuz TM-33
Mission Statistics
Mission Name:Soyuz TM-33
Call Sign:Derbent
Number of Crew Members: 3
Launch:October 21, 2001
08:59:35 UTC
Baikonur LC1
Landing:May 5, 2002
03:51:53 UTC
26 km SE of Arkalyk
Duration:195 days 18 hours 52 minutes 18 seconds
Number of Orbits: ~3,195

Crew

Launched:

Landed:

Mission Parameters

  • Mass: ? kg
  • Perigee: 191 km
  • Apogee: 227 km
  • Inclination: 51.7°
  • Period: 88.4 minutes

Mission Highlights

14th manned 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 10:00 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 03:59 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.


Previous Mission:
Soyuz TM-32
Soyuz programme Next Mission:
Soyuz TM-34


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