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The Mission

		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 3 schedule
NASA PRESS KIT
Posted: April 15, 2004

Orbit 28

Post sleep activity

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

Orbit 29

Free time, report on HM/DM pressures

Read up of predicted post burn Form 23 and Form 14
A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 30

Free time, read up of Form 2 "Globe Correction," lunch

Uplink of auto rendezvous command timeline
A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
Radar and radio transponder tracking

Orbit 31

Don Sokol spacesuits, ingress DM, close DM/HM hatch

Active and passive vehicle state vector uplinks
A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
Radio transponder tracking

Orbit 32

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

Begin auto rendezvous sequence

Crew monitoring of LVLH reference build and auto rendezvous timeline execution
A/G, R/T and Recorded TLM and Display TV downlink
Radio transponder tracking

Orbit 33

Auto Rendezvous sequence continues, flyaround and station keeping

Crew monitor
Comm relays via SM through Altair established
Form 23 and Form 14 updates
Fly around and station keeping initiated near end of orbit
A/G (gnd stations and Altair), R/T TLM (gnd stations), Display TV downlink (gnd stations and Altair)
Radio transponder tracking

Orbit 34

Final Approach and docking

Capture to "docking sequence complete" 20 minutes, typically
Monitor docking interface pressure seal
Transfer to HM, doff Sokol suits
A/G (gnd stations and Altair), R/T TLM (gnd stations), Display TV downlink (gnd stations and Altair)
Radio transponder tracking

Orbit 35

Station/Soyuz pressure equalization

Report all pressures
Open transfer hatch, ingress station
A/G, R/T and playback telemetry
Radio transponder tracking

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