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Mission: Expedition 9
Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA-4
Launch: April 19, 2004
Time: 0318:47 GMT (11:18:47 p.m. EDT on 18th)
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Satellite feed: AMC 9, Transponder 9, C-band

Launch events timeline

Flight Day 1 schedule

Flight Day 2 schedule

Flight Day 3 schedule

Expedition 9 science plan

European DELTA mission


The Crew




Russia's Gennady Padalka and NASA's Mike Fincke will live aboard the International Space Station for a half-year as Expedition 9 while Europe's Andre Kuipers will stay for a week before returning to Earth.

Exp. 9 commander Gennady Padalka

Exp. 9 science officer Mike Fincke

Visiting crewmember Andre Kuipers


The Launcher




The venerable Russian Soyuz rocket will deliver the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule into Earth orbit to dock with the International Space Station.

Rocket fact sheet

Soyuz spacecraft info


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Flight Day 2 schedule
NASA PRESS KIT
Posted: April 15, 2004

Orbit 13

Post sleep activity, report on HM/DM Pressures

Form 14 revisions voiced up

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 14

Configuration of RHC-2/THC-2 work station in the HM

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 15

THC-2 (HM) manual control test

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 16

Lunch

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 17

Terminate +Y solar rotation, reactivate MCS and establish LVLH attitude reference (auto maneuver sequence)

RHC-2 (HM) Test

  • Burn data uplink (TIG, attitude, delta V)
  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking
Auto maneuver to burn attitude (TIG - 8 min) while LOS

Rendezvous burn while LOS

Manual maneuver to +Y to Sun and initiate a 2 deg/sec yaw rotation. MCS is deactivated after rate is established.

Orbit 18

Post burn and manual maneuver to +Y Sun report when AOS

  • HM/DM pressures read down
  • Post burn Form 23, Form 14 and Form 2 (Globe correction) voiced up
  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 19

CO2 scrubber cartridge change out

Free time

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking Orbit 20 (4) Free time
  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 21

Last pass on Russian tracking range for Flight Day 2

Free time

  • A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
  • Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 22-27

Crew sleep, off of Russian tracking range

  • Emergency VHF2 comm available through NASA VHF Network
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