![]() Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft, docked to the functional cargo block (FGB) nadir port on the International Space Station. | |
Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Mission duration | 182 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes, 49 seconds (at ISS) 184 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 28 seconds (launch to landing) |
Distance travelled | ~123,133,253 kilometres (76,511,456 mi) |
Orbits completed | 2,895 |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 28 April 2003, 05:56:20[1] | UTC
Ended | 27 October 2003, 22:17:09[2] | UTC
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-2 |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-2 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Yuri Malenchenko Ed Lu |
![]() Expedition 7 mission patch ![]() L-R: Yuri Malenchenko and Ed Lu |
Expedition 7 was the seventh expedition to the International Space Station.[3]