Soyuz TMA-2
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 of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 112th flight in Sojusprogramm.
Crew
Start crew
- Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( third space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Edward Tsang Lu ( third space flight), flight engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
Backup crew
- Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri, Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Colin Michael Foale, Flight Engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
Return crew
- Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( third space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Edward Tsang Lu ( third space flight), flight engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
- Pedro Francisco Duque, ( second space flight), flight engineer (European Space Agency ESA / Spain )
Mission overview
This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 22 manned flight to the station. The working of the space station Expedition 6 was replaced by the crew of the Expedition 7. It consisted of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (commander ) and the American Edward Lu ( Flight Engineer ). When returning was the Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque on board, who had flown with Soyuz TMA -3 on October 18 at the station.
The launch took place at a carrier rocket Soyuz -FG type from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 26, 2003 at 03:53:52 UTC clock.
The two spacemen Malenchenko and Lu worked as 7 crew on the ISS and conducted scientific experiments.