Soyuz TMA-7

Soyuz TMA-7

Mission statistics
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Mission name:	Soyuz TMA-7
Call sign:
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

Soyuz TMA-7 was a manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) conducted by the Russian space agency Roskosmos. The mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 01 October 2005, transported ISS crew members to the station, and returned to Earth on 08 April 2006. TMA-7 also transported one "spaceflight participant" to the ISS and returned a Brazillian Flight Engineer to Earth.

Crew of Soyuz TMA-7

Mission highlights

28th manned flight to ISS (Flight 11S).

Soyuz TMA-7 approaches the International Space Station

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.

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.

Crew

• Valery Tokarev (2) - Commander - Russia
• William McArthur (4) - Flight Engineer - U.S.A.
• Gregory Olsen (1) - Spaceflight Participant (ascent only) - U.S.A.
• Marcos Pontes (1) - Flight Engineer (descent only) - Brazil

Mission parameters

• Mass: 7 200 kg
• Perigee: ~200 km
• Apogee: ~252 km
• Inclination: ~51.7°
• Period: ~88.7 minutes

See also

• Pictures and narrative of launch.

Previous mission: Soyuz TMA-6

Soyuz programme

Next mission: Soyuz TMA-8