Resident Crews of the International Space Station (ISS)

ISS: Expedition 7

ISS Project Patch
Crew ISS-07

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alternate crew photo

alternate crew photo

original crew photo

Patch ISS-7

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Patch Progress

Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2
Nation: Russian Federation USA
Surname:  Malenchenko  Lu
Given names:  Yuri Ivanovich  Edward Tsang
Job:  ISS-CDR  Flight Engineer
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz TMA-2  Soyuz TMA-2
Launch date:  26.04.2003  26.04.2003
Launchtime:  03:54 UT  03:54 UT
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz TMA-2  Soyuz TMA-2
Landingdate:  28.10.2003  28.10.2003
Landingtime:  02:40 UT  02:40 UT
Mission duration:  184d 22h 46m  184d 22h 46m
Orbits:  2890  2890

Backup Crew

No.: 1 2
Nation: Russian Federation USA
Surname:  Kaleri  Foale
Given names:  Aleksandr Yuriyevich  Colin Michael
Job:  ISS-CDR  Flight Engineer

Crew ISS-7 (Double)

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Where is the ISS now?

Expedition Report

Launch from Baikonur; landing 42 km south of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan.

ISS expedition 7; "caretaker" crew; docking to ISS; crew replaced the Expedition 6 crew; only 15 experiments on different scientific fields; periodic maintenance work (for example the station's toilet system, windows, spacesuits and more), upgrade work, training for spacewalks, although no spacewalk was planned; cargo ship Progress 11 docked on the station in June and Progress 12 in August with food, fuel, water, supplies and scientific gear, which had to be stowed.

Photos / Drawings

Progress transporter Soyuz TMA-2 rollout
Soyuz TMA-2 launch Arrival of Progress
Hurricane Isabel traditional in-flight photo ISS-07
Congo river Honolulu
Soyuz TMA-2 landing Soyuz TMA-2 recovery

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