Expedition 7
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| Mission name: | Expedition 7 | ||||
| Call sign: | Expedition 7 | ||||
| Number of crew: | 2 | ||||
| Launch Date: | April 26, 2003 03:53:52 UTC | ||||
| Launch Spacecraft: | Soyuz TMA-2 | ||||
| Landing Date: | October 28, 2003 02:40:20 UTC | ||||
| Landing Spacecraft: | Soyuz TMA-2 | ||||
| Landing Site: | near Arkalyk | ||||
| Time Docked: | 182 days 16:20:49 | ||||
| EVA Duration: | 0 h 0 min | ||||
| Mission Duration: | 184 days 22:46:28 | ||||
| Number of orbits: | 2,895 | ||||
| Distance traveled: | ~123,133,253 km | ||||
| Mass: | 187,016 kg | ||||
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Expedition 7 was the seventh expedition to the International Space Station.
[edit] Crew
- Yuri Malenchenko (3), Commander -
RSA - Ed Lu (3), Flight Engineer -
NASA
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
[edit] Mission parameters
- Perigee: 384 km
- Apogee: 396 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 92 min
- Docked: April 28, 2003 - 05:56:20 UTC
- Undocked: October 27, 2003 - 22:17:09 UTC
- Time Docked: 182 days, 16 h, 20 min, 49 s
[edit] Mission objectives
The seventh crew of the International Space Station lifted off in Soyuz TMA-2 from the Russian Space Agency's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 25, 2003, at 10:54 p.m. CDT. The Soyuz docked on April 28, 2003 and took over command of the ISS. The Expedition Seven crew -- along with European Space Agency Astronaut Pedro Duque -- landed back on Earth on October 27, 2003 at Kazakhstan at 9:41 p.m. EST, after undocking from the International Space Station in their Soyuz spacecraft at 6:17 p.m. EST.
From Houston, ISS Spacecraft Communicator Mike Fossum informed Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Science Officer Edward Lu on Wednesday, October 15 of the successful launch of the Long March rocket carrying the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft and Chinese astronaut Yáng Lìwěi. "It's really some exciting news to share. The world's spacefaring nations have been joined by a new member tonight: China."
"First off, we want to congratulate them," Lu replied. "The more people that go into space, the better off we all are. This is a great achievement and good for everyone in the long run."
In Chinese, he later added, "Welcome to space. Have a safe journey."
"I would also like to say I love to have somebody else in space instead of me and Ed," said Malenchenko. "I also know this is great for thousands and thousands of people from China. I congratulate all of them."
Malenchenko and Lu were previously crewmates on the STS-106 shuttle mission and did a spacewalk together during that flight.
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