Soyuz TMA-6

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Mission emblem
Soyuz TMA-6 emblem
Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz TMA-6
COSPAR-ID : 2005-013A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 216
Dimensions: 7200 kg
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Базальт (" basalt ")
Crew: 3
Begin: April 15, 2005, 00:46:25  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Coupling: April 17, 2005, 02:20:23 UTC
to the Pirs module
Decoupling: 10 October 2005 21:49:14 UTC
from the module Zarya
Landing: October 11, 2005, 01:09:00 UTC
Landing place: 85 km northeast of Arkalik , 50 ° 44'N / 67 ° 26'E
Flight duration: 179d 0h 23m 23s
Earth orbits: 2818
Rotation time : 88.64 min
Apogee : 360 km
Perigee : 349 km
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Roberto Vittori, Sergei Krikaljow and John Phillips
v. l. To the right: Roberto Vittori, Sergei Krikaljow and John Phillips
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-5
(manned) 		Soyuz TMA-7
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-6 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) . It was the tenth visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 116th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

With this flight, Krikalev became the first cosmonaut to reach the Soviet / Russian record of six space flights.

Substitute team

Return crew

Mission overview

Soyuz TMA-6 launch

This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 26th manned flight to this station. The Expedition 10 working on the space station was replaced by the Expedition 11 crew. It consisted of the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikaljow (commander) and the American John Phillips (flight engineer). In addition, the ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori flew with him, who returned to Earth on April 24, 2005 with the Soyuz TMA-5 landing capsule after a short stay at the station of 9 days, 21 hours and 21 minutes .

Roberto Vittori brought a painting by the German-Russian artist George Pusenkoff Single Mona Lisa (1: 1) with him to the space station, which shows an alienated image of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci , and made video and photo recordings of the work in the International Space station . This art action, initiated by Pusenkoff, was made possible mainly through the work of the then Italian ambassador to Russia, Gianfranco Facco Bonetti . The connection between science and art, as da Vinci himself lived it, was used here to let his spirit work not only on earth, but also in space. The photos are documented in the book Mona Lisa Travels .

The launch took place at a carrier rocket of the type Soyuz-FG from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 15, 2005 at 0:46:25 pm UTC . Soyuz TMA-6 docked at the station on April 17, 2005 at 02:19 a.m. UTC. The crew entered the space station at 04:46 UTC. On July 19, between 10:38 and 11:08 UTC, the spaceship was docked to another docking site.

The two spacemen Krikaljow and Phillips worked as the 11th permanent crew on the ISS and carried out 39 scientific experiments. An important part of their mission was the repair of the defective oxygen treatment system "Elektron". They also received a visit from the space shuttle “ Discovery ” ( STS-114 ) and three Progress space transporters.

On October 10, 2005 at 18:44 UTC the hatches between Soyuz TMA-6 and the ISS were closed, at 21:49 UTC Soyuz TMA-6 undocked from the International Space Station. The landing took place on October 11 at 01:09 UTC in Kazakhstan , 85 km (according to other information 58 km) from Arkalik .

Sergei Krikaljow set a new long-term record with this flight. Its total flight time is now around 803 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes.

More flight dates

  • Coupling ISS: April 17, 2005, 02:20 UTC (to the Pirs module )
  • Decoupling ISS: July 19, 2005, 10:38 UTC (from the Pirs module)
  • Coupling ISS: July 19, 2005, 11:08 UTC (to the Sarja module )
  • Decoupling ISS: October 10, 2005, 21:49 UTC (from the Sarja module)

See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-6  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Galloway (Ed.): Mona Lisa Travels . Kerber, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-070-5 .