Status
Success
Soyuz TM-33
Launch Time
Sun Oct 21, 2001 08:59 UTC
Sun Oct 21, 2001 08:59 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Soyuz TM-33
Soyuz TM-33 was a crewed Russian space launch on Oct 21, 2001, on the Soyuz-U launch vehicle. Its mission was to carry a new crew and supplies to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spaceship, developed to made crewed lunar missions. This version called 7K will fly 4 times on the giant launcher N1, and several tens of times on Proton to fly over the Moon, which will be successful during the mission Zond 4. Soyuz will become the first spacecraft to transport living beings to the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Subsequently, it is adapted to low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to serve the Salyut and Mir stations and the ISS.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,150.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
Site 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2001
49th orbital launch attempt
Soyuz U
784th mission
7th mission of 2001
763rd successful mission
54th consecutive successful mission