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Soyuz TM-33 ISS EP-2
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ISS EP-2
ISS EP-2
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French cosmonaut. Mission to swap Soyuz lifeboats docked to station.

AKA: Derbent;ISS EP-2;ISS-3S;Soyuz TM-33. Launched: 2001-10-21. Returned: 2001-10-31. Number crew: 3 . Duration: 9.83 days.

Soyuz TM-33, an ISS lifeboat, carried two Russian and one French cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked with the ISS at 10:00 UT on 23 October. This new crew spent eight days on the ISS, and returned on the older Soyuz TM-32 at 03:59 UT on 31 October. The new Soyuz was to remain docked as a lifeboat craft for the long-term ISS crew of three (two Russian and one American) astronauts. On May 5, 2002, after a week aboard the station, the visiting Soyuz TM-34 crew moved to the old Soyuz TM-33, docked at the Pirs port. They undocked at 0031:08 UTC on May 5, leaving the EO-4 crew of Onufrienko, Walz and Bursch with the new Soyuz TM-34 as their rescue vehicle. Soyuz TM-33 made its deorbit burn at 0257 UTC and landed successfully at 0352 UTC 25 km SE of Arkalyk.


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Family: Manned spaceflight. People: Afanasyev, Andre-Deshays, Kozeyev. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM.

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