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The Soyuz TMA-3 approaching ISS. 10/2003

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ESA/Novapix

Reference

e-is008-00101

Date

2006-10-19

The Soyuz TMA-3 ship, carrying ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, from Spain, for the Cervantes mission, approaches the International Space Station (ISS) prior to docking with the Russian Zarya resource module at 07:16 UT on October 20, 2003. Soyuz TMA-3, launched two days earlier from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, also carried the replacement permanent crew for the orbital outpost: Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri and British-born NASA astronaut Michael Foale.Soyuz TMA-3 successfully docked with the ISS on October 20.