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Soyuz TM-34 ISS EP-3
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ISS EP-3
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First South African astronaut. Mission to swap Soyuz lifeboats docked to station.

AKA: ISS EP-3;ISS-4S;Soyuz TM-34;Uran. Launched: 2002-04-25. Returned: 2002-05-05. Number crew: 3 . Duration: 9.89 days.

Launch delayed from April 10, 22 and 17. Soyuz TM-34 was launched on ISS Mission 4S with Commander Yuri Gidzenko of Rosaviakosmos, Flight Engineer is Roberto Vittori of ESA, and Tourist Mark Shuttleworth, a South African citizen. At 1210 UTC Soyuz TM-34 was in a 242 x 269 km x 51.6 deg orbit. The flight was also referred to as ISS Mission 4S, the EP-3 visiting crew flight, and even as 'Soyuz 4' by NASA. Soyuz TM-34 docked with the nadir port on the Zarya module at 0755 UTC on April 27. The 4S flight docked at the Zarya nadir port on April 27. and the crew would return to Earth in the old TM-33 vehicle, leaving TM-34 as the active ISS rescue vehicle. On November 9 the Soyuz TMA-1/EP-4 crew boarded Soyuz TM-34 and undocked from the Zarya nadir port at 2044 UTC, leaving Soyuz TMA-1 for the resident crew. Soyuz TM-34 landed in Kazakhstan at 0004 UTC on November 10.


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Family: Manned spaceflight. People: Gidzenko, Shuttleworth, Vittori. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM.
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