Soyuz TMA-3

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-3
COSPAR-ID :	2003-047A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732) serial number 213
Dimensions:	7250 kg
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Ингул (" Ingul " - river)
Crew:	3
Begin:	October 18, 2003, 05:38:03  UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Coupling:	October 20, 2003, 07:15:58 UTC to the Pirs module
Decoupling:	April 29, 2004, 20:52:09 UTC from the Pirs module
Landing:	April 30, 2004, 12:11:15 AM UTC
Landing place:	at Arkalik 50 ° 38 '  N , 67 ° 20'  O
Flight duration:	194d 18h ​​33min 12s
Earth orbits:	3170
Rotation time :	88.6 min
Apogee :	227 km
Perigee :	193 km
Team photo
v. l. No. Pedro Duque, Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-2 (manned) Soyuz TMA-4 (manned)

Soyuz TMA-3 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) . It was the seventh visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 113th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

• Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri (4th space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos / Russia )  
• Colin Michael Foale (6th Space Flight), Flight Engineer ( NASA / United States )  
• Pedro Francisco Duque , (2nd spaceflight) flight engineer ( ESA / Spain )  

With an average of four space flights, this is still the most experienced crew that has ever launched into space.

Substitute team

• Valeri Ivanovich Tokarew , Commander ( Roskosmos / Russia )  
• William S. McArthur , Flight Engineer ( NASA / United States )  
• André Kuipers , board engineer ( ESA / Netherlands )  

Return crew

• Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri (4th space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos / Russia )  
• Colin Michael Foale (6th Space Flight), Flight Engineer ( NASA / United States )  
• André Kuipers (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( ESA / Netherlands )  

Mission overview

Soyuz TMA-3 launch

This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 23rd manned flight to this station. Expedition 7 , which was working on the space station at the time , was replaced by the crew of Expedition 8 . It consisted of the US American Michael Foale (commander) and the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri (flight engineer). In addition, the Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque flew with him, who returned to Earth on October 28, 2003 with the Soyuz TMA-2 landing capsule after a short stay of 7 days .

The launch took place at a carrier rocket of the type Soyuz-FG from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 18, 2003 at 05:38:03 UTC.

The two spacemen Foale and Kaleri worked as the eighth regular crew on the ISS and carried out scientific experiments. They were also visited by two Progress spacecraft, Progress M-48 and Progress M1-11.

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned missions to the International Space Station

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-3  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-3 at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-3 on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-3 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-3 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-3 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)