Soyuz TMA-5
Soyuz TMA -5 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the ninth visit of a Soyuz spacecraft at the ISS and the 115th flight in Sojusprogramm.
Crew
Start crew
- Salis Chan Schakirowitsch Sharipov ( second space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Leroy Chiao (4th space flight), flight engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
- Yuri Georgijewitsch Shargin (1st space flight), flight engineer ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
Backup crew
- Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev, Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- William McArthur, Flight Engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
Return crew
- Salis Chan Schakirowitsch Sharipov ( second space flight), Commander ( Roskosmos Roscosmos / Russia Russia)
- Leroy Chiao (4th space flight), flight engineer ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA / United States United States)
- Roberto Vittori ( second space flight), flight engineer (European Space Agency / Italy Italy)
Mission overview
This flight was a crew exchange mission to the ISS and the 25th manned flight to the station. The working on the space station Expedition 9 was replaced by the crew of Expedition 10. It consisted of Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov (commander ) and the American Leroy Chiao ( Flight Engineer ). In addition, the cosmonaut Yuri Shargin flew with, who returned after a brief station stay of nearly eight days on 24 October 2004 with the Soyuz TMA -4 landing capsule to Earth.
The launch took place at a carrier rocket Soyuz -FG type from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 14 October 2004 at 03:06:00 UTC clock.
The two spacemen Sharipov and Chiao worked as a 10th resident crew on the ISS and conducted scientific experiments. In addition, they received a visit from two Progress space transporters.
More flight data
- Coupling ISS: October 16, 2004, 04:16 UTC ( to the Pirs module )
- Decoupling ISS: November 29, 2004, 09:29 UTC ( from Pirs module )
- Coupling ISS: November 29, 2004, 09:53 UTC ( to the Zarya module )
- Decoupling ISS: April 24, 2005 18:44 UTC ( from the Zarya module )