Soyuz TMA-1

Soyuz TMA-1
TMA-1 approaches the ISS
Mission typeISS crew transport
OperatorRussian Space Agency
COSPAR ID2002-050A
SATCAT no.27552
Mission duration185 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes, 14 seconds
Orbits completed~3,020
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz-TMA-1 11F732 No. 211
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA
ManufacturerEnergia
Crew
Crew size3
LaunchingSergei Zalyotin
Frank De Winne
Yury Lonchakov
LandingNikolai Budarin
Kenneth Bowersox
Donald Pettit
CallsignYenisey
Start of mission
Launch dateOctober 30, 2002, 03:11:11 (2002-10-30UTC03:11:11Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
ContractorProgress
End of mission
Landing dateMay 4, 2003, 02:04:25 (2003-05-04UTC02:04:26Z) UTC
Landing siteKazakh Steppe (49°37′47″N 61°20′36″E / 49.62972°N 61.34333°E / 49.62972; 61.34333)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Perigee altitude387 km (240 mi)
Apogee altitude395 km (245 mi)
Inclination51.63°
Period92.4 minutes
Epoch6 November 2002
Docking with ISS
Docking portPirs nadir
Docking date1 November 2002, 05:01:20 UTC
Undocking date3 May 2003, 22:43:00 UTC
Time docked183 days, 17 hours, 41 minutes, 40 seconds

Launching mission insignia

Launching crew, from left: De Winne, Zalyotin and Lonchakov

Soyuz TMA-1, also catalogued as Soyuz TM-35, was a 2002 Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle with a Russian-Belgian cosmonaut crew blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This was the fifth Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly to the ISS. It was also the first flight of the TMA-class Soyuz spacecraft. Soyuz TM-34 was the last of the prior Soyuz-TM spacecraft to be launched.