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Soyuz TM-34 flown interior lamp. Great display for your collection. Mission information: Launch crew: A Russian cosmonaut Gidzenko, an Italian astronaut R. Vittori, a South-African space tourist M. Shuttleworth. Landed crew: Russian cosmonaut S. Zalyotin Russian cosmonaut Y. Lonchakov ESA astronaut Frank De Winne (Belgium). The Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft with became the 4th spacecraft of this type to fly to the ISS. It was scheduled to replace the Soyuz TM-33, which arrived to the station in November 2001. On April 25, 2002, at 12:26 local time (10:26 Moscow Time), the Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft, carrying a Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko, an Italian researcher Roberto Vittori and a South-African tourist cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth blasted off from site 1 in Baikonur Cosmodrome. Mark Shuttleworth became a second space tourist, after a US millionaire Dennis Tito. The crew was expected to spend about one week onboard the ISS and return to Earth onboard the Soyuz YM-33 spacecraft, currently docked to the station. The Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft successfully docked to the nadir docking port of the Zarya module of the ISS at 7:56 GMT, on April 27, 2002, as the two vehicles flew over Central Asia. After eight days onboard the station, the taxi crew had returned to Earth onboard the Soyuz TM-33 spacecraft. This was the last mission of the Soyuz TM spacecraft. Later in 2002, Russia was to introduce the Soyuz TMA spacecraft (where "A" stands for "anthropometric"). The TMA version will feature a number of upgrades, most of which are aimed to reduce the limitations on the height of the crewmembers, who can fly the vehicle. The Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft remained docked to the ISS until November 2002. After eight days onboard the station, the 4th tasi crew, which included the commander Sergei Zalyotin, flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov and ESA astronaut Frank De Winne. The crew boarded the Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft, which then undocked from the nadir port of the Zarya control module of the ISS on Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 23:44 Moscow Time (2044 GMT). The braking engine of the Soyuz spacecraft was fired at 02:09:49 Moscow Time on November 10. The burn lasted for 4 minutes 39 seconds, as the craft descended from 419.7 kilometres to 411.6 kilometres. The re-entry capsule with the crew then jettisoned from the habitation module and the instrument module of the Soyuz spacecraft and at 02:37:49 Moscow Time at the altitude of 101 kilometres re-entered the atmosphere. At 02:46:58, at the altitude of 40 kilometres, the crew experienced maximum 4g acceleration. The parachute system of the re-entry capsule was activated at 02:49:20 at the altitude of 10.7 kilometres. The re-entry capsule of the Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft landed safely some 100 kilometres northeast of the town of Arkaluk in Kazakhstan on November 10 at 03:04:20 Moscow Time (0004 GMT). At the post-flight press conference, the crewmembers said that night conditions and strong winds during landing prevented them from seeing the ground before the touchdown and the firing of the braking engines came very suddenly. Despite hard landing, everybody onboard was feeling fine, they said. Authenticity guaranteed. COA. Buyer pays actual shipping cost.
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