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Soyuz TMA-7

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ISS EO-12 Credit: www.spacefacts.de

AKA: ISS EO-12;Rassvet. Launched: 2005-10-01. Returned: 2006-04-08. Number crew: 2 . Duration: 189.83 days.

The flight program consisted of the following main activities:

• Launch of two ISS EO-12 crewmembers and one space tourist (EP-9) aboard Soyuz TMA-7 in flight 11S;
• Docking of the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft to the Docking Compartment (PIRS);
• Operational support for undocking of Soyuz TMA-6 from the FGB (Zarya) module;
• Relocation of the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft from the PIRS to the FGB (Zarya) modules;
• Loading and undocking of Progress M-54;
• Operational support for docking and unloading of Progress M-55;
• Performance of extravehicular activities: one US egress (EVA) on the ISS USOS (Unity) and one Russian egress (EVA) on the ISS RS;
• Support of the Space Station functionality;
• Performance of the science and application research program and experiments SVS, Kristallizator, Relaksatsia, Uragan, Ekon, Plasma-MKS, Sprut-MBI, Cardio-ODNT, Profilaktika, Pulse, Gematologia, Pilot, Biorisk, Akvarium, Rastenia-2, Intercellular interaction, Statokonia, Regeneratsia, Prognos, Matryoshka-R, Diatomeya, Volny, Konjugatsia, Biodegradatsia, Bioekologia, Bioemulsia, Meteoroid, Vector-T, Izgib, Plasma crystal, Identifikatsia, Skorpion, RadioSkaf, Sreda, Infotekh, Kromka, as well as contracted commercial activities (GTS, GCF-JAXA, Rokviss, JAXA-3DPC, SCN, Cardiocog-4, NOA, Immuno);
• Implementation of space tourist's Gregory Olsen's program onboard the ISS, as well as ESA life science experiments (Sample, Muscle, Mop) during EP-9;
• Crew handover to Increment ISS EO-13 and return of ISS EO-12 crewmembers on Soyuz TMA-7.

• International Space Station Status Report #05-44 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7.

  A 2½-ton delivery arrived at the back door of the International Space Station today as an unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up to the Zvezda module's docking port at 9:42 a.m. CDT, filled with supplies for Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips and spare parts for repair to some Station systems. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-46 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Olsen, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7. Preparations for arrival of the next crew of the space station, scientific activities and maintenance highlighted this week's activities aboard the orbiting laboratory.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-47 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Olsen, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7. The 12th crew of the international space station rocketed into space tonight, beginning a six-month mission.. Additional Details: here....

• Soyuz TMA-7 - . Call Sign: Rassvet. Crew: McArthur, Olsen, Tokarev. Return Crew: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 217. Mass: 7,250 kg (15,980 lb). Nation: Russia. Related Persons: McArthur, Olsen, Pontes, Tokarev. Agency: NASA, RAKA, Shanghai Astronautics Bureau. Manufacturer: Korolev bureau. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 189.83 days. Decay Date: 2006-04-08 . USAF Sat Cat: 28877 . COSPAR: 2005-039A. Apogee: 348 km (216 mi). Perigee: 347 km (215 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.50 min.

  Launch delayed from September 27. Soyuz TMA-7 docked with the International Space Station at 05:27 GMT on 3 October, bringing the long duration EO-12 crew of (McArthur, Commander; Tokarev, Flight Engineer) and space tourist Olsen. McArthur, Tokarev and Pontes (brought to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-8) transferred to TMA-7 on April 8, 2006, closing the hatches at 17:15 GMT and undocking from Zvezda at 20:28 GMT, leaving Vinogradov and Williams from Soyuz TMA-8 as the Expedition 13 in charge of the station. Soyuz TMA-7 fired its engines at 22:58 GMT for the deorbit burn and landed in Kazakhstan at 23:48 GMT.

• International Space Station Status Report #05-48 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Olsen, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7. New residents arrived at the international space station this morning to begin a six-month mission that will carry them through the new year into next spring.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-49 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Olsen, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7.

  Following the docking of the Soyuz spacecraft early Monday morning, the space station is now home to a new crew. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, joined by spaceflight participant Gregory Olsen, spent the week on board with the Expedition 11 crew performing handover and transfer activities. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-50 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Krikalyov, McArthur, Olsen, Phillips, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7.

  After traveling 75 million miles during six months on the international space station, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips returned to Earth today. With them was American Greg Olsen, who spent eight days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-51 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev are spending their first few days alone on the international space station following the safe return home of their predecessors Monday.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report #05-52 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-6, Soyuz TMA-7.

  Growing increasingly familiar with their microgravity home and laboratory in space, the 12th international space station crew turned its attention to experiment work, began preparations for the first space station-based spacewalk using U.S. suits since 2003 and captured spectacular images and video of the latest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Wilma. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-053 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev this week checked the clothes, tools and plans they will use for a five and half-hour spacewalk set for Nov. 7.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-054 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. The Expedition 12 crew prepared for its first spacewalk and kept the international space station ship-shape this week as they passed a milestone of five years of human presence aboard the complex.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-055 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. The international space station crew completed the first spacewalk using U.S. space suits since April 2003, installing a new camera and discarding an inactive science probe.. Additional Details: here....

• EVA ISS EO-12-1 - . Crew: McArthur, Tokarev. EVA Duration: 0.22 days. Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7.

  The EVA started an hour late due to a misaligned valve in the Quest airlock module. The crew installed a television camera on the outboard end of the port truss segment of the ISS and removed a failed Rotary Joint Motor Controller (RJMC). They then moved hand over hand to the P6 truss, 16 m above the Destiny module. McArthur removed an old experiment, the Floating Potential Probe, and pushed it away from the station. Finally the crew replaced a failed circuit breaker in the Mobile Transporter.

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-056 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Jett, McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. With their first spacewalk behind them, the residents of the international space station pressed ahead this week to prepare for several upcoming milestones.. Additional Details: here....

• Soyuz TMA-7 moved on ISS. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. The ISS EO-12 crew boarded their Soyuz TMA-7 and undocked from the Pirs module at 08:46 GMT, flew around the station, and then docked with the Zarya module at 09:05 GMT. This cleared the hatch on the Pirs module for a future planned spacewalk..

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-057 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev took a short ride away from the International Space Station today, flying their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-058 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. This week the crew focused on preparing for the arrival of a holiday shipment of fuel, food, water, spare parts and gifts.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-059 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. Supplies and holiday gifts are on the way to the International Space Station following today's Progress spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.. Additional Details: here....

• Progress M-55 - . Payload: Progress M s/n 355. Mass: 7,250 kg (15,980 lb). Nation: Russia. Agency: RAKA. Manufacturer: Korolev bureau. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned logistics spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Progress M. Duration: 179.96 days. Decay Date: 2006-06-19 . USAF Sat Cat: 28906 . COSPAR: 2005-047A. Apogee: 349 km (216 mi). Perigee: 336 km (208 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min. The resupply spacecraft docked with the ISS Pirs module at 19:46 GMT on 23 December. It undocked at 14:06 GMT on June 19, 2006; fired its engines at 17:06 GMT to lower its orbit into the atmosphere; and burned up over the Pacific Ocean at 17:41 GMT..

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-060 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. A holiday delivery arrived at the International Space Station today for the Expedition 12 crew.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS05-061 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. The crew onboard the International Space Station are looking forward to celebrating New Year's Day after spending a quiet Christmas 225 miles above the Earth.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-001 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. It was back to work this week for the Expedition 12 crew after a long New Year's weekend that marked the halfway point in their six-month stay aboard the station.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-002 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. This past week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev completed an important upgrade to the station's spacewalk preparation systems, and installed the Recharge Oxygen Orifice Bypass Assembly.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-003 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began his week Sunday by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-004 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8. Preparations for a walk in space took center stage this week on the space station.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-005 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Fossum, McArthur, Sellers, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, STS-115, STS-121. Space station crewmembers released a spacesuit-turned-satellite during the second spacewalk of their mission last night.. Additional Details: here....

• EVA ISS EO-12-2 - . Crew: McArthur, Tokarev. EVA Duration: 0.24 days. Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7.

  Wearing Orlan suits, the crew emerged from the Pirs airlock of the station and first released a surplus Orlan suit with its radio transmitter activated, dubbed SuitSat. SuitSat broadcast greetings in six languages to radio amateurs for two orbits before its batteries failed. The crew then moved to the Zarya module and relocated the Strela crane grapple fixture to the Unity module. This cleared Zarya for the future temporary stowage of debris shields. The crew moved on to the station's center truss, where they safed a cutting mechanism on one of two umbilicals to the Mobile Transporter rail car. Returning to Pirs, they retrieved a microorganism experiment and photographed the exterior of Zvezda.

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. The International Space Station crew completed a semiannual treadmill overhaul this week and began readying for a first-ever station "camp out" next week.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006A - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off; then returned to science investigations, routine maintenance and equipment tests.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-007 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, STS-121. Aboard the International Space Station this week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev have been preparing for upcoming spacecraft arrivals and departures.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-009 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8. The International Space Station crew's week included a robotic arm first and a docking communications test to prepare for a new European cargo ship.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-010 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-011 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20.. Additional Details: here....

• Soyuz TMA-7 moved. - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7. At 06:49 GMT ISS crewmen McArthur and Tokarev flew Soyuz TMA-7 from the Zarya docking port to the docking port at the aft end of Zvezda, docking there at 07:11 GMT. This leaves the Zarya port free for the planned arrival of Soyuz TMA-8 on April 1..

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-012 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. The Expedition 12 crew members have the International Space Station poised and ready for their replacements to arrive March 31.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-013 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. The 13th crew of the International Space Station roared away today from Kazakhstan into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz rocket.. Additional Details: here....

• Soyuz TMA-8 - . Call Sign: Carat. Crew: Pontes, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Return Crew: Ansari, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 218. Mass: 7,250 kg (15,980 lb). Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Ansari, Pontes, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Agency: NASA, RAKA. Manufacturer: Korolev bureau. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 182.95 days. Decay Date: 2006-09-29 . USAF Sat Cat: 28996 . COSPAR: 2006-009A. Apogee: 349 km (216 mi). Perigee: 336 km (208 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min.

  Soyuz TMA-8 docked with the Zarya nadir port of the ISS at 04:19 GMT on April 1. It undocked from Zarya on 28 September at 21:53 GMT, with the return crew of Vinogradov, Williams and space tourist Ansari aboard. It landed in Kazakhstan at 01:13 GMT on 29 September.

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-014 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10. A new crew pulled into port at the International Space Station late Friday to start a six-month mission.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-015 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10, STS-115. Camaraderie and hard work highlighted this week's joint operations on the International Space Station.. Additional Details: here....

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-016 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Reiter, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10, STS-115, STS-121, STS-121 Astrolab. After orbiting Earth more than 3,000 times during six months on the International Space Station, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev returned to the planet Sunday morning in Kazakhstan.. Additional Details: here....

• Landing of Soyuz TMA-7 - . Return Crew: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Tokarev. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10.

• International Space Station Status Report: SS06-017 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: McArthur, Pontes, Reiter, Tokarev, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-8 ISS EP-10, STS-121, STS-121 Astrolab. The 13th crew of the International Space Station is wrapping up its first week flying solo in its new orbiting home.. Additional Details: here....

• STS-121 MCC Status Report #08 - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Fossum, Kelly, Mark, Lindsey, Nowak, Reiter, Sellers, Vinogradov, Williams, Jeffrey, Wilson. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-7, Soyuz TMA-8, STS-121, STS-121 Astrolab. The first spacewalk of Discovery's STS-121 mission to the International Space Station will highlight Saturday activities for crews of both docked spacecraft.. Additional Details: here....