Crew

Launched ISS Expedition 9 Crew:

• Gennady Padalka (2)
• Edward Fincke (1) - U.S.A.
• Andre Kuipers (1) - ESA (Netherlands)

Landed ISS Expedition 9 Crew:

• Gennady Padalka (2)
• Edward Fincke (1) - U.S.A.
• Yuri Shargin (1)

Mission Parameters

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

Mission Highlights

24th manned flight to ISS.

Soyuz TMA-4 is a Soyuz spacecraft that was launched on April 19, 2004 (UTC) by the Soyuz launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the USA and André Kuipers from the Netherlands are flying 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 will stay as ISS crew 9. The Soyuz TMA-4 will also stay until the next crew change.

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

The Expedition 10 crew, Leroy Chiao-Cdr U.S.A. and Salizhan Sharipov-Russia is scheduled to replace the Expedition 9 crew, Gennady Padalka-Cdr Russia and Edward Fincke-U.S.A. on October 16, 2004.