Soyuz TMA-3 launched from Baikonur on a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying Expedition 8 crew Michael Foale and Alexander Kaleri along with ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, docking with the ISS Pirs module two days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 2003, 05:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2003-047
- Launches in 2003
- 48th of 63
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