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Soyuz TMA-2 Mission Journal - Part 1

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The Soyuz FG rocket, with its Soyuz TMA spacecraft payload, heads to the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo courtesy of NASA.
Soyuz TMA-2 is docked with the ISS.

LEFT: The Soyuz FG rocket, with its Soyuz TMA spacecraft payload, heads to the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
RIGHT: Expedition 7 patch.

Expedition 7 patch. Image courtsy of NASA.

  • 25 April 2003 - LAUNCH! - The Soyuz rocket has thundered into orbit, starting a two-day chase of the International Space Station. NASA reports:

    Expedition Seven Launches Towards ISS
    Expedition Seven launches atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Image: NASA/Energia.Expedition Seven Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu are en route to the International Space Station. They launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz rocket at [11:54PM EDT Friday/0354 GMT Saturday].
    They will spend two days chasing the orbital outpost before docking, which is slated for [1:56AM EDT/0556 GMT] Monday. After arriving at the station, Malenchenko and Lu will take part in nearly a week of handover activities with the outpost’s current residents - Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit.
    On May 3, the Expedition Six crew will climb into the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft and return to Earth, ending a stay in space that began in late November 2002. Malenchenko and Lu will spend six months on the ISS.
    NASA TV will provide coverage of Expedition Seven’s arrival at the station beginning at [1AM EDT/0500 GMT] Monday. Then on Tuesday, the three astronauts and two cosmonauts will participate in a news conference at [11:25AM EDT/1525 GMT] that will be seen live on NASA TV.
    Check out the full schedule for upcoming Expedition Six and Seven coverage on NASA TV.
    Expedition Seven Mission Overview (136 Kb PDF)
    Ask the ISS Crew Answers are available.
    Read Flight Engineer Don Pettit's Space Chronicles.

    Ed Lu is the first American to copilot a Soyuz spacecraft.



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