Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; mission
ISS
Expedition
One.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the
ISS on
02.11.2000. They activated the life support systems of the station and
performed first repairing works. The unloading supplies and equipment from a
Progress supply ship was done.
The first four science experiments were
started: Protein Crystal Growth - Enhanced Gaseous Nitrogen in the aera of
physical sciences and also Middeck Active Control Experiment II (MACE II), Crew
Earth Observations (CEO), Space Exposed Experiment Developed for Students
(Education-SEEDS. On February 24, 2001 the crew took a short flight of 30
minutes around the
ISS to
repositioning their Soyuz capsule (
Gidzenko at the controls) from the docking port of the Zvezda
module to the docking port of the Zarya module.
Common work with the
visiting crews of
STS-97 (2. -
09.12.2000) and
STS-98 (9. - 16.02.2001)
was done.
The crew returned to Earth with
STS-102.
