Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
93 km north of Arkalyk.
The mission carried out the
ISS
expedition 10. They
were called a "caretaker" crew. Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz
docked to
ISS
on 16.10.2004.
Sharipov and
Chiao
replaced the
expedition
9 crew.
17 experiments from the
NASA
were planned, including the first work with the
DAFT-experiment
and completing the
ISSI
this experiment was conducted during Space Station
expedition 7 and/or
expedition 8.
.
First
EVA by
Chiao
and
Sharipov on 26.01.2005 (5h 28m) to install a work platform on
the hull of the command module, to mount the European commercial experiment
Rokviss, to relocate the Japanese space exposure experiment package and to
install a Russian biological experiment.
Second and final
EVA by
Chiao
and
Sharipov on 28.03.2005 (4h 30m) to install three
communications antennas for the
ATV (Automated
Transfer Vehicle) and a
GPS (Global
Positioning System) antenna,
Sharipov manually deployed a Russian experiment, tossing a
small science satellite called "Nanosatellite" into orbit.
