Soyuz TM-34
| Mission Statistics
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-34
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| Call Sign: | Uran
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| Number of Crew Members: | 3
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| Launch: | April 25, 2002
06:26:35 UTC
Baikonur LC1
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| Landing: | November 10, 2002
00:04:20 UTC
80 km NE of Arkalyk
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| Duration: | 198 days 17 hours 37 minutes 45 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | ~3,235
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Crew
Launched:
Landed:
Mission Parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 193 km
- Apogee: 247 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
Mission Highlights
17th manned mission to ISS.
Soyuz TM-34 is a Russian passenger transportation craft that was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 06:26 UT on 25 April 2002. It carried two Russian astronauts and a South African tourist to the International Space Station (ISS). The tourist peformed some biology experiments also, as he carried a live rat and sheep stem cells. All threereturned in the same Soyuz after an eight-day mission.
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