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Soyuz TMA-1
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Contents
- 1 Crew
- 1.1 Launched:
- 1.2 Landed ISS Expedition 6 crew:
- 2 Mission parameters
- 3 Mission highlights
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Crew
Launched:
Mission parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 193 km
- Apogee: 235 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
Docking with ISS
Mission highlights
The fifth Russian Soyuz class shuttle to fly to the International Space Station. It is also the first flight of the TMA-class Soyuz spacecraft.
In the spring of
2001, a taxi mission to the space station was being scheduled to take place on
October 2002. At first the crew was to be Commander
Sergei Zalyotin and Flight Engineer
Frank De Winne; however, a report released on
February 2002 stated that American musician
Lance Bass was interested in joining the crew for a one-week mission onboard the Russian spacecraft. The mission began to fall through, and by
September 2002 they had discontinued the training of Lance Bass due to the mission organizers' failure to meet the terms of the contract. They filled the vacant seat left by Lance Bass with Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Lonchakov.
A technical malfunction caused a steep and off target landing of the spacecraft after a ballistic reentry and descent. The craft landed 300 miles short of the planned area, and the crew was subjected to severe gravitational loads. Communication with the Soyuz was lost because one antenna was ripped off during descent, and two more did not deploy. The crew regained communications through an emergency transmitter after landing. Due to this event, future crews will have a satellite phone at their disposal to establish contact with recovery forces.
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