Soyuz TM-34 carried commander Yuri Gidzenko, ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, and South African spaceflight participant Mark Shuttleworth to the ISS on a taxi mission; the crew returned on Soyuz TM-33, and it was the final flight of the Soyuz-TM variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 655th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 2002, 06:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2002-020
- Launches in 2002
- 20th of 65
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