Crew and Mission

First Russian visiting crew to ISS; Dennis Tito, Talgat Amangeldievich Musabaev and Yury Mikhailovich Baturin.

The Soyuz TM-32, Russian manned transport spacecraft, was launched by the Souyz-U launch vehicle on April 28, 2001 at 11:37:20 Moscow Summer Time (07:37:20 UTC). from the cosmodrome Baikonur in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Docking with ISS took place on April 30, 2001 at 11:58 Moscow Summer Time (07:57:47 UTC) to the nadir docking port of the Zarya Functional Cargo Block. The Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft undocked from the Russian service module Zvezda on May 6, 2001 at 6:21 Moscow Summer Time (02:21:09 UTC). Landing was on May 6, 2001 at 9:41 Moscow Summer Time (05:41:28 UTC) to the north-north-east of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Total flight duration was 7 days 22 hours 4 mins 8 secs.

The Artwork

Dennis Tito

above left: Dennis Tito
above right: Dennis Tito's personal patch for Soyuz TM-32.