Soyuz TMA-4
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| Mission name | Soyuz TMA-4 | ||||
| Spacecraft name | Soyuz TMA | ||||
| Crew size | 3 | ||||
| Call sign | Altair | ||||
| Launch pad | Gagarin's Start | ||||
| Launch date | April 19, 2004 03:19:00 UTC |
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| Landing | October 24, 2004 00:35:00 UTC 90 km north of the town of Arkalyk |
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| Mission duration | 187 days, 13 hours, 22 minutes | ||||
| Number of orbits | ~2,950 | ||||
| Apogee | 252 km | ||||
| Perigee | 200 km | ||||
| Orbital period | 88.7 minutes | ||||
| Orbital inclination | 51.7° | ||||
Crew photo
From left to right: Michael Fincke, Gennady Padalka and André Kuipers
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Soyuz TMA-4 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was launched on April 19, 2004 (UTC) from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the USA and André Kuipers from the Netherlands were flown to the International Space Station. Kuipers returned to Earth 9 days later together with ISS crew 8 with the re-entry module of the Soyuz TMA-3, the other two stayed as ISS crew 9. The craft landed October 24, 2004 with Padalka, Fincke and Yuri Shargin aboard.
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[edit] Crew
[edit] Launched and landed ISS Expedition 9 crew:
- Gennady Padalka (2) -
Russia - Michael Fincke (1) -
United States
[edit] Launched:
- André Kuipers (1) - ESA
Netherlands
[edit] Landed:
- Yuri Shargin (1) - Russia
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 200 km
- Apogee: 252 km
- Inclination: 51.7°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
[edit] Docking with ISS
- Docked to ISS: April 21, 2004, 05:01 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
- Undocked from ISS: October 23, 2004, 21:08 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)
[edit] Mission highlights
Soyuz TMA-4 is a Russian passenger spacecraft that was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur at 03:19 UT on 19 April 2004. It carried three astronauts (a Russian, an American and a Dutch) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the Zarya module of the ISS automatically on 21 April at 05:01 UT. Two of its astronauts will remain in the ISS for about six months, while the Dutch astronaut and the two astronauts who had inhabited the ISS for several months left the ISS on 29 April in the TMA-3 that had remained docked with the ISS, soft landing in Kazakhstan at 00:11 on 30 April.
The Expedition 10 crew, Leroy Chiao-Cdr U.S.A. and Salizhan Sharipov-Russia replaced the Expedition 9 crew, Gennady Padalka-Cdr Russia and Edward Fincke-U.S.A. on October 16, 2004.
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