Soyuz TMA-3
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 of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 113th flight in Sojusprogramm.
Crew
Start crew
- Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri (4th space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Colin Michael Foale ( 6 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 )
With an average of four space flights, this is still the most experienced crew that has been launched into space.
Backup crew
- Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev, Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- William McArthur, Flight Engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
- André Kuipers, Flight Engineer ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
Return crew
- Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri (4th space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Colin Michael Foale ( 6 space flight), flight engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
- André Kuipers ( first space flight), flight engineer (European Space Agency ESA / Netherlands The Netherlands)
Mission overview
This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 23 manned flight to the station. The working at the time on the Space Station Expedition 7 was replaced by the crew of Expedition 8. It consisted of the US- American Michael Foale ( commander) and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri ( Flight Engineer ). In addition, the Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque flew with, the 7 days returned after a short stay ward on 28 October 2003 with the Soyuz TMA -2 landing capsule to Earth.
The launch took place at a carrier rocket Soyuz -FG type from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 October 2003 at 05:38:03 UTC clock.
The two spacemen Foale and Kaleri worked as an eighth crew on the ISS and conducted scientific experiments. In addition, they received a visit from two Progress space transporters, Progress M -48 and Progress M1 - 11th