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Soyuz TM-31 was the first Soyuz spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Launched near the end of 2000 the Soyuz-TM spacecraft brought to ISS Expedition 1 the first long-duration ISS crew. It was launched from Russia at 07:52 UT on October 31 2000 by a Soyuz-U rocket.The crew consisted of Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev and American William Shepherd.
