Soyuz TMA-2

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-2
COSPAR-ID :	2003-016A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732) serial number 212
Dimensions:	7136 kg
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Agat (agate " agate ")
Crew:	2 on takeoff 3 on landing
Begin:	April 26, 2003, 03:53:52  UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Coupling:	28 April 2003 05:56:20 UTC to the module Zarya
Decoupling:	October 27, 2003, 23:17:09 UTC from the Zarya module
Duration on the ISS :	182d 18h ​​21min
Landing:	October 28, 2003, 02:40:20 UTC
Landing place:	42 km south of Arkalik 49 ° 57 '  N , 67 ° 2'  O
Flight duration:	184d 22h 46min 28s
Earth orbits:	2890
Apogee :	385 km
Perigee :	376 km
Team photo
v. l. No. Malenchenko and Lu
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-1 (manned) Soyuz TMA-3 (manned)

Soyuz TMA-2 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) . It was the sixth visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 112th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

• Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (3rd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
• Edward Tsang Lu (3rd space flight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )

The third seat was empty to save supplies because of the Columbia crash .

Substitute team

• Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri , Commander (Russia / Roskosmos)
• Colin Michael Foale , flight engineer (USA / NASA)

Return crew

• Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (3rd space flight), Commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
• Edward Tsang Lu (3rd space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)
• Pedro Francisco Duque , (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( Spain / ESA )  

Mission overview

Soyuz TMA-2 launch

This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 22nd manned flight to this station. Expedition 6 , which was working on the space station, was replaced by the Expedition 7 crew. It consisted of the Russian cosmonaut Juri Malenchenko (commander) and the American Edward Lu (flight engineer). The Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, who had flown to the station with Soyuz TMA-3 on October 18, was also on board .

The launch took place at a carrier rocket of the type Soyuz-FG from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 26, 2003 at 03:53:52 UTC.

The two spacemen Malentschenko and Lu worked as the 7th permanent crew on the ISS and carried out scientific experiments.

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-2  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-2 at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-2 on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-2 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-2 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-2 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Spaceweb: New mission for Soyuz TMA-2. Retrieved July 4, 2015 .