Soyuz TMA-2 launch

Soyuz TMA-2 was a Soyuz ( Russian Союз ТМА-2, Union TMA-2 ) mission to the International Space Station ( ISS ) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle.

The spacecraft docked with the ISS 2003-04-28 and undocked 2003-10-27. Soyuz TMA-2 was the second flight for the TMA modification of the Soyuz spacecraft, and the 6th Soyuz to fly to the ISS.

Until the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster the same was planned for Soyuz TMA-2, a visiting crew consisting of commander Gennady Padalka and ESA-astronaut Pedro Duque were to spend about one week at the station and then return with the previous Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft.

Soyuz TMA-2 landing

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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.

Malenchenko with astronaut Edward Lu lifted on board the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 26, 2003, to the ISS.

Aboard Soyuz TMA-2 and the ISS, Malenchenko spent 184 days, 22 hours and 46 minutes in space.

Having been flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-2, Lu spent six months in space in 2003 as part of ISS Expedition 7, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

* Soyuz TMA-2, a Russian space exploration mission

Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft, docked to the functional cargo block ( FGB ) nadir port on the International Space Station.

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 25 April 2003, at 05: 56: 20 UTC.

They returned to earth on Soyuz TMA-1 and a reduced Expedition 7 crew with just two members was delivered to the ISS on Soyuz TMA-2.

Sharman flew aboard Soyuz TM-12 to Mir and returned aboard Soyuz TM-11.

In 1994, he was the first ESA astronaut to fly into space with Russia, on board Soyuz TM-20, and returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-19.

He trained in Star City near Moscow for the next two years, and flew on board Soyuz 31 ( launched 26 August 1978 ) to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, and returned on Soyuz 29, landing on 3 September 1978.

Volynov remained behind on Soyuz 5, and returned to Earth in a remarkable re-entry.

The Soyuz craft was activated on 24 July and the crew returned to earth two days later.

The first crew launched later in the Soyuz 10 mission, but they ran into troubles while docking and were unable to enter the station ; the Soyuz 10 mission was aborted and the crew returned safely to Earth.

Soyuz 23 returned to Earth on 16 October without completing its mission objectives.

The Soyuz had come from the Mir space station and returned to Mir after 50 days on Salyut.

The crew returned in Soyuz 31, which had been swapped by a crew launched in August who returned in Soyuz 29.

The cosmonauts began powering down the station on 7 February and they returned to Earth in the Soyuz capsule two days later.

On 16 October, Soyuz 23 returned to earth and landed 8: 45 p. m. local time, but weather conditions were poor and the cosmonauts experienced an unusual recovery.

" He returned to Earth on Soyuz TMA-15 in November 2009.

He and the Soyuz TMA-15 crew returned to earth December 1, 2009.

The launched crew stayed for a week and returned in Soyuz TM-31, which had been docked to ( or nearby ) the station since November 2000 functioning as " lifeboat " for the onboard crew ( Expedition 1 and 2 ).

On November 4, 1994, Malenchenko, Musabayev and Ulf Merbold returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz capsule after landing 88 km northeast of Arkalyk.

He returned to Earth on board Soyuz TMA-14.

* 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

* February 9 – The Soyuz 17 crew ( Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev ) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.

The USSR continued to develop space station technology with the Salyut program and Mir (' Peace ' or ' Earth ') space station, supported by Soyuz spacecraft.

The mission plan was complex, involving a rendezvous with Soyuz 2, swapping crew members before returning to Earth.

Soyuz 1 was plagued with technical issues, and Komarov was killed when the spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth.

As a result, the Soyuz reentry module fell to Earth in Orenburg Oblast almost entirely unimpeded, at about ; Komarov died on impact.

The Soyuz is shown off-centre throughout the video just days before astronauts Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, and Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov | Sergey Volkov board this vehicle to come back to Earth.

On December 17, 2011 another Soyuz was launched from Kourou carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

* 17 December 2011-A Soyuz carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

The Soyuz 7K-L1 ( also mentioned just as L1 ) spacecraft was used for the moon-aimed missions, stripped down to make it possible to launch around the moon from the Earth.

Zond 5, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched from a Tyazhely Sputnik ( 68-076B ) in Earth parking orbit to make scientific studies during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth.

Zond 6, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite ( 68-101B ) in Earth parking orbit.

Zond 7, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, the only truly successful test of L1, was launched towards the Moon from a mother spacecraft ( 69-067B ) on a mission of further studies of the Moon and circumlunar space, to obtain color photography of Earth and the Moon from varying distances, and to flight test the spacecraft systems.

Zond 8, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik ( 70-088B ), towards the Moon.

Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.

For four consecutive days, Commander Georgy Beregovoy piloted the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft through eighty-one orbits of Earth.

The aim of the mission was to dock with Soyuz 5, transfer two crew members from that spacecraft, and return to Earth.

On October 25, 1968, Beregovoy took the Soyuz 3 into outer space: he orbited the Earth for almost four days at altitude up to 252 km.