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Soyuz TMA-4
Spacecraft properties


Mission type	ISS crew transport
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2004-013A
SATCAT no.	28228
Mission duration	187 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes
Orbits completed	~2,950


Spacecraft	Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA
Manufacturer	Energia


Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Gennady Padalka Michael Fincke
Launching	André Kuipers
Landing	Yuri Shargin
Callsign	Altair


Start of mission
Launch date	19 April 2004, 03:19:00 (2004-04-19UTC03:19Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
Contractor	Progress


End of mission
Landing date	24 October 2004, 00:35:00 (2004-10-24UTC00:36Z) UTC
Landing site	90 km (56 mi) north of Arkalyk


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	200 km (120 mi)
Apogee altitude	252 km (157 mi)
Inclination	51.7 degrees
Period	88.7 minutes


Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zarya nadir
Docking date	21 April 2004 05:01 UTC
Undocking date	23 October 2004 21:08 UTC
Time docked	185d 16h 7m

From left to right: Michael Fincke, Gennady Padalka and André Kuipers Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-3 Soyuz TMA-5 →

Soyuz TMA-4 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was launched on 19 April 2004 (UTC) from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the US and André Kuipers from the Netherlands were flown 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 stayed as ISS crew 9. The craft landed 24 October 2004 with Padalka, Fincke and Yuri Shargin aboard.

Crew


Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Gennady Padalka, Roscosmos^[1] Expedition 9 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Michael Fincke, NASA^[1] Expedition 9 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	André Kuipers, ESA^[2] First spaceflight	Yuri Shargin, Roscosmos^[1] Only spaceflight

Original Crew


Position	Crew
Commander	Talgat Musabayev, Roscosmos N/A (Taxi Flight) Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Hans Schlegel, ESA N/A (Taxi Flight) Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer or Spaceflight Participant	Spaceflight Participant or Russian Cosmonaut N/A (Taxi Flight) First spaceflight

Mission parameters

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

Docking with ISS

Docked to ISS: 21 April 2004, 05:01 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
Undocked from ISS: 23 October 2004, 21:08 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)

Mission highlights

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 Dutchman) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the Zarya module of the ISS automatically on 21 April at 05:01 UT. Two of its astronauts remained 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 replaced the Expedition 9 crew, Gennady Padalka-Cdr Russia and Michael Fincke-Flight Engineer-U.S.A. on 16 October 2004.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c "OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE on General Designers' Review for the Soyuz TMA-5 prelaunch processing". NPO Energia. 22 September 2004. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
^ "Return to space for Spanish ESA astronaut". ESA. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

Soyuz programme

Main topics

Past missions
(by spacecraft type)

Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970)	Kosmos 133† Soyuz 7K-OK No.1† (uncrewed) Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1† Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 (uncrewed) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 154† Zond 1967A† 1967B† Zond 4 1968A† 1968B† 5 6 1969A† Zond-M 1† M 2† Zond 7 8 9 10
Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970)	Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1† Kosmos 382
Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972)	Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1† No.2†
Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	Soyuz 10† 11†
Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981)	Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15† 17 18a† 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23† 24 25† 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33† 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40
Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 (Apollo–Soyuz) 22
Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976)	Kosmos 670 772† 869†
Soyuz-T (1978–1986)	Kosmos 1001† 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8† T-9 T-10a† T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15
Soyuz-TM (1986–2002)	Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34
Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012)	Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22
Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016)	Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M
Soyuz MS (2016–present)	Soyuz MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 MS-12 MS-13 MS-14 (uncrewed) MS-15 MS-16 MS-17 MS-18 MS-19 MS-20 MS-21 MS-22 (uncrewed landing) MS-23 (uncrewed launch) MS-24 MS-25

Current missions

MS-26

Future missions

2025
- MS-27
- MS-28
2026
- MS-29

Uncrewed missions are designated as Kosmos instead of Soyuz; exceptions are noted "(uncrewed)".
The † sign designates failed missions. Italics designates cancelled missions.

v t e Human spaceflights to the International Space Station
See also: ISS expeditions, Uncrewed ISS flights
1998–2004	1998 STS-88 1999 STS-96 2000 STS-101 106 92 Soyuz TM-31 STS-97 2001 STS-98 102 100 Soyuz TM-32 STS-104 105 Soyuz TM-33 STS-108 2002 STS-110 Soyuz TM-34 STS-111 112 Soyuz TMA-1 STS-113 2003 Soyuz TMA-2 TMA-3 2004 Soyuz TMA-4 TMA-5	International Space Station Emblem
2005–2009	2005 Soyuz TMA-6 STS-114 Soyuz TMA-7 2006 Soyuz TMA-8 STS-121 115 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 2007 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 2008 STS-122 123 Soyuz TMA-12 STS-124 Soyuz TMA-13 STS-126 2009 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-14 TMA-15 STS-127 128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17
2010–2014	2010 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 132 Soyuz TMA-19 TMA-01M TMA-20 2011 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 Soyuz TMA-02M STS-135 Soyuz TMA-22 TMA-03M 2012 Soyuz TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M 2013 Soyuz TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M 2014 Soyuz TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M
2015–2019	2015 Soyuz TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M 2016 Soyuz TMA-20M MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 2017 Soyuz MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 2018 Soyuz MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 2019 Soyuz MS-12 MS-13 MS-15
Since 2020	2020 Soyuz MS-16 SpaceX Demo-2 Soyuz MS-17 SpaceX Crew-1 2021 Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 SpaceX Crew-3 Soyuz MS-20 2022 Soyuz MS-21 Axiom-1 SpaceX Crew-4 Soyuz MS-22 SpaceX Crew-5 2023 Soyuz MS-23 SpaceX Crew-6 Axiom-2 SpaceX Crew-7 Soyuz MS-24 2024 Axiom-3 SpaceX Crew-8 Soyuz MS-25 Boeing CFT Soyuz MS-26 SpaceX Crew-9
Future	2025 SpaceX Crew-10 Soyuz MS-27 Axiom-4 Boeing Starliner-1
Individuals	List of ISS visitors crew
Vehicles	Past Space Shuttle Present Boeing Starliner Crew Dragon Soyuz Future Orel
Ongoing spaceflights are in underline † - mission failed to reach ISS

v t e ← 2003 Orbital launches in 2004 2005 →
January	Estrela do Sul 1 Progress M1-11
February	AMC-10 USA-176 Molniya-1 No.93
March	Rosetta (Philae) MBSat Eutelsat W3A USA-177 Globus No.17L
April	Superbird-A2 Tansuo 1, Naxing 1 Soyuz TMA-4 Gravity Probe B Ekspress AM-11
May	DirecTV-7S AMC-11 Formosat-2 Progress M-49 Kosmos 2405
June	Kosmos 2406 Intelsat 10-02 USA-178 Telstar 18 Demeter, AprizeSat-1, AprizeSat-2, Saudisat-2, SaudiComsat-1, SaudiComsat-2, UniSat-3, AMSAT-Echo
July	Aura Anik F2 Kosmos 2407 Tan Ce 2
August	MESSENGER Amazonas 1 Progress M-50 FSW-19 USA-179
September	Ofek-6 Shijian 6A, Shijian 6B GSAT-3 / EDUSAT Kosmos 2408, Kosmos 2409 Kosmos 2410 FSW-3 2
October	Soyuz TMA-5 AMC-15 Fengyun 2C Ekspress AM-1
November	Zi Yuan 2C USA-180 Tansuo 2 Swift
December	AMC-16 Helios IIA, Nanosat 01, Essaim 1, Essaim 2, Essaim 3, Essaim 4, Parasol HLVOLSDP, Sparkie, Ralphie Progress M-51 Sich-1M, MK-1TS Kosmos 2411, Kosmos 2412, Kosmos 2413
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).