Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Soyuz TM-32" in Portuguese language version.
In parallel with the Progress launch campaign, a Soyuz-TM spacecraft – which would later fly to the International Space Station as Soyuz TM-32 – was made ready to fly cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Nikolai Budarin to Mir should the Progress fail to dock. Padalka and Budarin were chosen for this role as they had previously trained for a similar contingency mission to perform a manual docking of the Zvezda module to the International Space Station should it have encountered difficulties.
