COSPAR ID 2003-047A Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F732 Crew size 3 Launch date 18 October 2003 Rocket Soyuz-FG | Orbits completed ~3,170 Manufacturer RKK Energia Dates 18 Oct 2003 – 30 Apr 2004 Landing date 30 April 2004 Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome | |
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Mission duration 194 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes, 12 seconds Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members Aleksandr Kaleri, Michael Foale | ||
Soyuz TMA-3 was a Soyuz (Russian Союз ТМА-3, Union TMA-3) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle which was the third flight for the TMA modification of the Soyuz spacecraft, and the 7th Soyuz to fly to the ISS.
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Docking with ISS
Specifications
Mission highlights
The commander of the Soyuz was Alexander Kaleri (Russia). The flight engineer was Michael Foale (USA), and Pedro Duque from Spain served as the second flight engineer. After docking with the ISS they exchanged the current crew on ISS and became the eighth station crew, called "ISS Expedition Eight". During the stay on the station Michael Foale was the ISS Commander, while Alexander Kaleri was the engineer. Foale was the first American to have served on both Mir and the ISS. Pedro Duque performed some ESA sponsored science experiments under the mission name Cervantes and then returned with the ISS 7 crew on Soyuz TMA-2.
The backup crew was William McArthur, Valery Tokarev and André Kuipers.
Foale and Kaleri along with André Kuipers, the third seater from TMA-4 landed on April 29, 2004, near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. A minor helium leak did not affect their mission.