Soyuz TMA-7
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| Mission name: | Soyuz TMA-7 |
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| Number of crew members: | 3 |
| Launch: | October 1, 2005 03:55:00 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | April 8, 2006 23:48:00 UTC |
| Duration: | 189d 19h 53m |
| Number of orbits: | 2,987 |
Crew
Launched ISS Expedition 12 crew:
- Valery Tokarev (2) Commander - Russia
- William McArthur (4) Flight Engineer - U.S.A.
- Gregory Olsen (1) Spaceflight Participant - U.S.A.
Landed ISS Expedition 12 crew:
- Valery Tokarev (2) Commander - Russia
- William McArthur (4) Flight Engineer - U.S.A.
- Marcos Pontes (1) Flight Engineer - Brazil
Mission parameters
- Mass: 7 200 kg
- Perigee: ~200 km
- Apogee: ~252 km
- Inclination: ~51.7°
- Period: ~88.7 minutes
Mission highlights
28th manned flight to ISS (Flight 11S).
Soyuz TMA-7 is a Soyuz spacecraft which has been launched on October 1, 2005 by a Soyuz launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The spacecraft carried two members of the Expedition 12 crew to the International Space Station, together with the space tourist Gregory Olsen. They replaced the Expedition 11 crew, Commander Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips.
The last member of the original Expedition 12 crew, Thomas Reiter finally launched in July 2006 on STS-121. Owing to to shuttle mechanical and weather delays, he was forced to move to Expedition 13.
This was the last flight which is covered by the 1996 "balance" agreement that required the Russians to provide 11 Soyuz spacecraft to ferry joint U.S-Russian crews to and from the International Space Station. Further Soyuz flights needed a renegotiation between NASA and its Russian counterpart, and a modification of the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000.
See also
| Previous mission: Soyuz TMA-6 |
Soyuz programme | Next mission: Soyuz TMA-8 |
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