Engineering:Soyuz TMA-4

Short description: 2004 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Soyuz TMA-4

Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2004-013A
Mission duration	187 days, 13 hours, 22 minutes
Orbits completed	~2,950
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Gennady Padalka Michael Fincke
Launching	André Kuipers
Landing	Yuri Shargin
Callsign	Altair
Start of mission
Launch date	April 19, 2004, 03:19:00 (2004-04-19UTC03:19Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	October 24, 2004, 00:35:00 (2004-10-24UTC00:36Z) UTC
Landing site	90 kilometres (56 mi) north of the town of Arkalyk
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	200 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee altitude	252 kilometres (157 mi)
Inclination	51.7 degrees
Period	88.7 minutes
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zarya nadir
Docking date	21 April 2004 05:01 UTC
Undocking date	23 October 2004 21:08 UTC
Time docked	185d 16h 7m
From left to right: Michael Fincke, Gennady Padalka and André Kuipers Soyuz programme (Crewed missions)

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 US 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.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Gennady Padalka, RKA Expedition 9 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Michael Fincke, NASA Expedition 9 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	André Kuipers, ESA First spaceflight	Yuri Shargin, RKA Only spaceflight

Original Crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Talgat Musabayev, RKA N/A (Taxi Flight) Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Hans Schlegel, ESA N/A (Taxi Flight) Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer or Spaceflight Participant	Spaceflight Participant or Russian Cosmonaut N/A (Taxi Flight) First spaceflight

Mission parameters

• Mass: ? kg
• Perigee: 200 km
• Apogee: 252 km
• Inclination: 51.7°
• Period: 88.7 minutes

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)

Mission highlights

Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft approaches the ISS.

Soyuz TMA-4 is a Russian passenger spacecraft that was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur at 03:19 UT on April 19, 2004. It carried three astronauts (a Russian, an American and a Dutchman) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the Zarya module of the ISS automatically on April 21 at 05:01 UT. Two of its astronauts remained 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 April 29 in the TMA-3 that had remained docked with the ISS, soft landing in Kazakhstan at 00:11 on April 30.

The Expedition 10 crew, Leroy Chiao-Cdr U.S.A. and Salizhan Sharipov-Russia replaced the Expedition 9 crew, Gennady Padalka-Cdr Russia and Michael Fincke-Flight Engineer-U.S.A. on October 16, 2004.