Soyuz TM-31

Soyuz TM -31 mission is the designation for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the first visit of the Soyuz spacecraft with the ISS and the 107th flight in Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Start crew

ISS Expedition 1:

  • Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko ( second space flight), Soyuz commander (Russia Russia)
  • William Shepherd ( 4 space flight), ISS Commander (United States United States)
  • Sergei Konstantinovich Krikaljow ( fifth space flight), flight engineer (Russia Russia)

Backup crew

  • Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov, Commander (Russia Russia)
  • Kenneth Duane Bowersox, Flight Engineer (United States United States)
  • Mikhail Tyurin Vladislavovich, Flight Engineer (Russia Russia)

Return crew

  • Talghat Musabayev ( third space flight), Commander ( Kazakhstan )
  • Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin ( second space flight), flight engineer (Russia Russia)
  • Dennis Tito ( first space flight), space tourist (United States United States)

Mission overview

More flight data

  • Coupling ISS: November 2, 2000, 09:21 UTC ( to the Zvezda module )
  • Decoupling ISS: February 24, 2001, 10:06 UTC ( from Zvezda module )
  • Coupling ISS: February 24, 2001, 10:37 UTC ( to the Zarya module )
  • Decoupling ISS: April 18, 2001, 12:40 UTC ( from the Zarya module )
  • Coupling ISS: April 18, 2001, 13:01 UTC ( to the Zvezda module )
  • Decoupling ISS: 6 May 2001 02:21 UTC ( from Zvezda module )

Others

The period between the landing of STS- 92 on October 24, 2000 at 20:59:41 UTC and the launch of Soyuz TM- 31 to the International Space Station on October 31, 2000 at 07:52:47 UTC was the last time phase in which not a single person was in space. This phase lasted for six days and almost eleven hours.

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