Soyuz TMA-6

• Ship Commander - Sergey Krikalev   Russia (6th flight)
• Flight Engineer 1 - Phillips, John Linch   USA (2nd flight)
• Flight Engineer 2 - Roberto Vittori ( Italian: Vittori Roberto )   Italy (2nd flight)

• Ship Commander - Mikhail Tyurin   Russia
• Flight Engineer 1 - Tani Daniel Michio   USA
• Flight Engineer 2 - Thirsk Robert Brent   Canada

• Ship's commander - Krikalev, Sergey Konstantinovich  
• Flight Engineer 1 - Phillips, John Lynch  
• Flight Engineer 2 - Olsen, Gregory  

Exit 1 - Krikalev and Phillips.

Purpose : replacement of scientific equipment on the outer surface of the Star and Pier modules, installation of a television camera at the rear of the Star module.

Start : August 18 , 19:02 UTC.

End : August 18, 24:00 UTC.

Duration : 4 hours 58 minutes.

This is the 62nd space exit associated with the ISS, the 34th exit directly from the ISS, the 16th exit from the Russian Pirs module.

This is Sergey Krikalyov’s 8th space exit and John Phillips’s 1st exit.

The flight program provides for the docking of the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) and the change of the ISS main crew. At the time of the launch of Soyuz TMA-6, the 10th main crew, Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov, is on the ISS. The 11th ISS main crew - Sergey Krikalev and John Philips worked on the ISS until October 11, 2005.

Cosmonaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) Roberto Vittori conducted research and experiments on the ISS for 10 days and returned to Earth with the ISS-10 crew on the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft.

During their stay on the ISS, Sergey Krikalev and John Philips conducted various scientific research and experiments, maintained the ISS in working condition, made spacewalks from the Russian Pirs module, received and unloaded two Progress cargo spacecraft, and met the American in orbit Shuttle Discovery STS-114 .

On July 19, the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft was rebuilt from the Pirs module to the Zarya functional cargo block. Scheduled for July, the flight of the second shuttle Atlantis STS-121 did not take place.

Sergey Krikalev was the first of the Soviet-Russian cosmonauts to make the sixth space flight. On August 16, Sergey Krikalev exceeded the record for the total stay in space, which belonged to the Russian cosmonaut cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev and amounted to 747 days 14 hours 12 minutes. After landing, the total time spent in space by Sergey Krikalyov was 803 days 9 hours 39 minutes.

October 11, Krikalev and Philips returned to Earth. Together with them, the third space tourist Gregory Olsen , who arrived on October 3 on the ISS with a brief visit on the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft, returned to Earth. During the descent, a partial depressurization of the returned vehicle occurred, but this did not affect the success of the landing ^[2] .

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• The launch of the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft (neopr.) . Roscosmos television studio ( April 15, 2005 ). Date of treatment August 16, 2010. Archived August 24, 2011.
• Spaceship Soyuz TMA-6