SOYUZ TM-31

' Soyuz TM-31 '

Mission Statistics
'Mission Name:'	Soyuz TM-31
'Call Sign:'	Uran
'Number of Crew Members:'	3
'Launch:'	October 31, 2000 07:52:47 UTC Baikonur LC1
'Landing:'	May 6, 2001 05:41:28 UTC 90? km NE of Arkalyk
'Duration:'	186 days 21 hours 48 minutes 41 seconds
'Number of Orbits:'	~3,040

Contents

Crew

Mission parameters

Docking with ISS

Mission highlights

Crew

'Launched: ISS Expedition 1 crew:'

★ Yuri Gidzenko (2)

★ Sergei Krikalev (5)

★ William Shepherd (4) - U.S.
Landed:

★ Talgat Musabayev (3)

★ Yuri Baturin (2)

★ Dennis Tito (1) - Spaceflight Participant (U.S.A.)

Mission parameters

★ 'Mass:' ? kg

★ 'Perigee:' 190 km

★ 'Apogee:' 249 km

★ 'Inclination:' 51.6°

★ 'Period:' 88.6 minutes

Docking with ISS

★ 'Docked to ISS:' November 2, 2000, 09:21 UTC (to aft port of Zvezda)

★ 'Undocked from ISS:' February 24, 2001, 10:06 UTC (from aft port of Zvezda)

★ 'Docked to ISS:' February 24, 2001, 10:37 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)

★ 'Undocked from ISS:' April 18, 2001, 12:40 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)

★ 'Docked to ISS:' April 18, 2001, 13:01 UTC (to aft port of Zvezda)

★ 'Undocked from ISS:' May 6, 2001, 02:21 UTC (from aft port of Zvezda)

Mission highlights

Soyuz TM-31 was Russian passenger transportation spacecraft launched by a Soyuz-U rocket at 07:52 UT on October 31, 2000. It carried a crew of three to dock it with the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) at about 09:21 UT on November 2. The Progress M1-3 cargo craft that was docked with Zvezda was released to make way for the Soyuz. The crew of two Russian and one American spent over three months on the ISS, and returned to Earth in an American shuttle (STS-102) in February 2001. In the initial days, the crew brought a variety of life support systems on-line, and created a lap-top computer network that helped run all systems in the ISS. The remaining months were allotted for exercise and space endurance practice. The crew was first group of a planned decade-long "permanent inhabitation" of the ISS.

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