Soyuz TM-31

Summary

Soyuz TM-31 was the first Soyuz spaceflight to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).[1] The spacecraft carried the members of Expedition 1, the first long-duration ISS crew. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:52 UT on October 31, 2000, by a Soyuz-U rocket.

Soyuz TM-31
OperatorRosaviakosmos
COSPAR ID2000-070A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.26603Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration186 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes, 41 seconds
Orbits completed~3,040
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
LaunchingYuri Gidzenko
Sergei Krikalev
William Shepherd
LandingTalgat Musabayev
Yuri Baturin
Dennis Tito
CallsignUran
Start of mission
Launch dateOctober 31, 2000, 07:52:47 (2000-10-31UTC07:52:47Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U
Launch siteGagarin's Start
End of mission
Landing dateMay 6, 2001, 05:41:28 (2001-05-06UTC05:41:29Z) UTC
Landing site90 kilometres (56 mi) NE of Arkalyk
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude190 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee altitude249 kilometres (155 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Period88.6 minutes
Docking with ISS
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking date2 November 2000
09:21 UTC
Undocking date24 February 2001
10:06 UTC
Time docked114d 45m
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portZarya nadir
Docking date24 February 2001
10:37 UTC
Undocking date18 April 2001
12:40 UTC
Time docked53d 2h 3m
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking date18 April 2001
13:01 UTC
Undocking date6 May 2001
02:21 UTC
Time docked17d 13h 20m

(L-R) Gidzenko, Shepherd and Krikalev
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 
Soyuz TM-31 is transported to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur complex, 29 October 2000

The crew consisted of Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, and American William Shepherd. Gidzenko was Commander of the flight up, but once aboard the station, Shepherd became Commander of the long-duration mission Expedition 1.[2] It is notable for beginning the continuous occupation of space from the 31st of October, 2000 to the present.[3]

Crew edit

Position Launching crew Landing crew
Commander   Yuri Gidzenko, RKA
Expedition 1
Second spaceflight
  Talgat Musabayev, RKA
ISS EP-1
Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer   Sergei Krikalev, RKA
Expedition 1
Fifth spaceflight
  Yuri Baturin, RKA
ISS EP-1
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer/Spaceflight Participant   William Shepherd, NASA
Expedition 1
Fourth and last spaceflight
  Dennis Tito, SA
ISS EP-1
First spaceflight
Tourist


References edit

  1. ^ "Soyuz ISS Missions" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-02.
  2. ^ "ISS: 10 Years of Human Space Mission". Russian Federal Space Agency. Archived from the original on 2012-03-01.
  3. ^ Mike Wall (2019-04-23). "The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records". Space.com. Retrieved 2023-12-12.