Soyuz TMA-8

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Soyuz TMA-8

Mission statistics
Mission name:	Soyuz TMA-8
Call sign:	Carat
Number of crew members:	3
Launch:	March 30, 2006 02:30 UTC Baikonur LC1
Landing:	September 29, 2006 01:13 UTC Kazakhstan
Duration:	182 days
Number of orbits:	2, 886

Contents 1 Crew 2 Mission parameters 2.1 Docking with ISS 3 Mission highlights 4 References 5 See also 5.1 External links

[edit] Crew

Soyuz TMA-8 was a transport mission for portions of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 crew. The flight delivered ISS Commander Pavel Vinogradov and ISS Flight Engineer Jeffrey Williams to the station to replace Expedition 12 crew members. Flight Engineer Marcos Pontes joined the TMA-8 crew for the ascent and docking with ISS, spent approximately seven days aboard the ISS conducting experiments, then returned to Earth with the outgoing members of Expedition 12 aboard Soyuz TMA-7. Vinogradov and Williams were joined on their return trip to Earth by Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari who launched aboard Soyuz TMA-9 and spent approximately eight days aboard ISS conducting experiments for the European Space Agency.

Launched:^[1]

• Pavel Vinogradov (2) Commander - Russia
• Jeffrey Williams (2) Flight Engineer - United States
• Marcos Pontes (1) Flight Engineer - Brazil

Landed:

• Pavel Vinogradov (2) Commander - Russia
• Jeffrey Williams (2) Flight Engineer - United States
• Anousheh Ansari (1) Spaceflight Participant - Iran / United States

Back-up crew ^{[1] [2]}

• Fyodor Yurchikhin Commander - Russia
• Michael Fincke Flight Engineer - United States
• Sergei Volkov Flight Engineer - Russia

*Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.

[edit] Mission parameters

• Mass: 7,270 kg
• Perigee: 200 km
• Apogee: 241 km
• Inclination: 51.67°
• Period: 88.64 minutes

[edit] Docking with ISS

• Docked to ISS: April 1, 2006, 04:19 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
• Undocked from ISS: September 28, 2006, 21:53 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)

[edit] Mission highlights

29th manned flight to ISS (Flight 12S)

Soyuz TMA-8 is a Soyuz spacecraft which was launched on March 30, 2006 by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The spacecraft carried two members of the Expedition 13 crew to the International Space Station, together with Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian in space. The Brazilian government paid Russia about $20 million for Marcos's flight.[1] They replaced the Expedition 12 crew, Commander William McArthur and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev. Together with the Expedition 12 crew, Marcos Pontes returned to Earth on board Soyuz TMA-7.

Soyuz TMA-8 returned to Earth, together with Expedition 13, the spaceflight participant launched with Soyuz TMA-9, Anousheh Ansari. ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} ISS Mission Information Report No. 2006-6. Retrieved on 2006-10-04.
2. ^ Mission of Soyuz TMA-8. Retrieved on 2006-10-03.
3. ^ NASA - Space Station Crew Back on Earth.

[edit] See also

• List of spaceflights (2006)

[edit] External links

• Soyuz TMA-8

Soyuz manned flights
Previous mission: Soyuz TMA-7	Soyuz TMA-8	Next mission: Soyuz TMA-9

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	STS-88 | STS-96 | STS-101 | STS-106 | STS-92 | Soyuz TM-31 | STS-97 | STS-98 | STS-102 | STS-100 | Soyuz TM-32 | STS-104 | STS-105 | Soyuz TM-33 | STS-108 | STS-110 | Soyuz TM-34 | STS-111 | STS-112 | Soyuz TMA-1 | STS-113 | Soyuz TMA-2 | Soyuz TMA-3 | Soyuz TMA-4 | Soyuz TMA-5 | Soyuz TMA-6 | STS-114 | Soyuz TMA-7 | Soyuz TMA-8 | STS-121 | STS-115
In progress: Soyuz TMA-9 | STS-116
Upcoming: STS-117 | Soyuz TMA-10 | STS-118 | STS-120