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ISS News & Mission: Soyuz TM-33 (Taxi 2) / ESA Andromeda Mission

Mission Overview

Major Mission Goals: Deliver replacement Soyuz Carry out ESA Andromeda experiment program Return in Soyuz TM-32 currently in orbit Crew: Commander: Viktor Afanasiev Flight Engineer-1: Claudie Haignere Flight Engineer-2: Konstantin Kozeev Mission Details: Launch: October 21, 2001 Following the fly-around of the station, the Soyuz TM-33 spacecraft approached the free nadir port of the ISS Functional Cargo Block Zarya. French astronaut Claudie Haignere (flight engineer, representative of the European Space Agency) carried out an expermient program (Andromeda) which carried forward a long history of European cooperation in manned spaceflight with Russia which had its first manned flight on the Salyut 7 space station. The crew exchanged custom seat liners with the Soyuz TM-32, and returned to Earth in TM-32. After 10 days in space, 8 days on the station, the taxi crew landed normally in Kazakstan Oct. 30.

Expedition 3 crew (in white) and Soyuz Taxi 2 crew in the US Lab module

Expedition 3 crew has a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner

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