05/16/2001
An official red carpet welcome of the first Russian visiting
crew to the International Space Station took place.
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05/06/2001
The airplane carrying the crew landed at Chkalovsky air
field near Moscow on May 6, 2001 at 17:50 Moscow Summer
Time.
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05/04/2001, Korolev
Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC-M) has hosted a press
conference of the first visiting crew, which arrived on-board
ISS on April 30, 2001 in Soyuz TM-32 transportation vehicle.
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04/28/2001. Baikonur cosmodrome
Russian Soyuz-U rocket with Soyuz TM-32 spaceship in flight.
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Soyuz TM-32 crew at the launch pad prior to boarding their
spacecraft.
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Commander of Soyuz TM-32 crew, T.A.Musabaev reports to
the Chairman of the State Committee V.A.Grin.
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On behalf of the Soyuz TM-32 crew, the CTC Director Pyotr
Klymuk is presenting Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman-cosmonaut,
with the tulips grown at Baikonur.
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Final space suite check-out and pre-launch news conference
of Soyuz TM-32 crew.
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04/27/2001. Baikonur cosmodrome
At 8 hours 00 minutes Moscow Summer Time the State Commission
meeting was held with the aim to approve the following makeup
of the Soyuz TM-32 crew: Talgat Musabayev, Commander; Yuri
Baturin, Flight Engineer and Dennis Tito, flight participant.
The back-up crew: Viktor Afanasiev, Commander; Konstantin
Kozeev, Flight Engineer.
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04/26/2001. Baikonur cosmodrome
Installation of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Soyuz
TM-32 spacecraft on the launching pad.
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At 5:00 a.m. Moscow time launch vehicle with the Soyuz
TM-32 spacecraft was transferred from Assembly and Testing
Facility to launch site.
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04/25/2001. Baikonur cosmodrome
At 15 hours Moscow time the Intergovernmental Commission
and Technical Management Meeting was held at which it was
decided that on April 26, 2001 the launch vehicle with the
Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft would be rolled out from Assembly
and Testing Facility to launch site.
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Integration of the encapsulated Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft
with the launch vehicle in Launch Vehicle Assembly and Testing
Facility.
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Docking of the emergency crew recovery system which makes
it possible to move away the descent vehicle from the rocket
in distress.
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04/24/2001. Baikonur cosmodrome
Transfer of the encapsulated Soyuz TM spacecraft from Spacecraft
Assembly and Testing Facility to Launch Vehicle Assembly
and Testing Facility for general assembly.
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04/23/2001. Krainii airport at the Baikonur cosmodrome
The first Russian visiting crews to the ISS consisting of
T.Musabaev, Yu.Baturin and D.Tito (prime crew) and V.Afanasiev,
K.Kozeev (backup crew) arrived to the launch site to immediate
training for the flight to the Inernational Space Station
scheduled on April 28.
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04/22/2001. Baikonur launch site
Payload shroud roll on to the Soyuz TM spacecraft.
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Designers inspection of the Soyuz TM spacecraft.
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04/17/2001. Baikonur launch site
The crew fit check in the Assembly and Testing Facility
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In the cosmonaut training hall.
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04/16/2001. Baikonur launch site
The first Russian visiting crew to the ISS consisting of
T.Musabaev, Yu.Baturin and D.Tito arrived to Krainii airport
at Baikonur.
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