Soyuz TMA-1

Soyuz TMA-1
TMA-1 approaches the ISS
Mission typeISS crew transport
OperatorRussian Space Agency
COSPAR ID2002-050A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.27552Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration185 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes, 14 seconds
Orbits completed~3,020
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz-TMA-1 11F732 No. 211[1]
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA
ManufacturerEnergia
Crew
Crew size3
LaunchingSergei Zalyotin
Frank De Winne
Yury Lonchakov
LandingNikolai Budarin
Kenneth Bowersox
Donald Pettit
CallsignYenisey
Start of mission
Launch dateOctober 30, 2002, 03:11:11 (2002-10-30UTC03:11:11Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
ContractorProgress
End of mission
Landing dateMay 4, 2003, 02:04:25 (2003-05-04UTC02:04:26Z) UTC
Landing siteKazakh Steppe (49°37′47″N 61°20′36″E / 49.62972°N 61.34333°E / 49.62972; 61.34333)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Perigee altitude387 km (240 mi)
Apogee altitude395 km (245 mi)
Inclination51.63°
Period92.4 minutes
Epoch6 November 2002[2]
Docking with ISS
Docking portPirs nadir
Docking date1 November 2002, 05:01:20 UTC
Undocking date3 May 2003, 22:43:00 UTC
Time docked183 days, 17 hours, 41 minutes, 40 seconds

Launching mission insignia

Launching crew, from left: De Winne, Zalyotin and Lonchakov

Soyuz TMA-1[a], also catalogued as Soyuz TM-35, was a 2002 Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle with a Russian-Belgian cosmonaut crew blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.[3] This was the fifth Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly to the ISS. It was also the first flight of the TMA-class Soyuz spacecraft.[4] Soyuz TM-34 was the last of the prior Soyuz-TM spacecraft to be launched.

  1. ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  2. ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  3. ^ Quest.NASA.gov Space report No.46 Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ RussianSpaceWeb.com: Soyuz TMA-1


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