Soyuz TMA-2 launched Expedition 7 commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Edward Lu to the ISS from Baikonur, a reduced two-person crew necessitated by the Space Shuttle grounding after the Columbia disaster.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 2003, 03:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2003-016
- Launches in 2003
- 16th of 63
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