Expedition 10

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ISS Expedition 10

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Mission type	ISS Expedition
Mission duration	190 days, 11 hours, 23 minutes (at ISS) 192 days 19 hours, 2 minutes (launch to landing)
Distance travelled	~122,000,000 kilometres (76,000,000 mi)
Orbits completed	~2,975
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	16 October 2004, 04:16 (2004-10-16UTC04:16Z) UTC
Ended	24 April 2005, 18:45 (2005-04-24UTC18:46Z) UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-5
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-5
Crew
Crew size	2
Members	EVA duration	10 hours, 34 minutes
Expedition 10 mission patch L-R: Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov ISS expeditions ← Expedition 9 Expedition 11 →

Expedition 10 (2004–2005) was the tenth expedition to the International Space Station, using the Soyuz TMA-5, which stayed during the expedition for emergency evacuation.

Crew

Prime crew

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Leroy Chiao, NASA Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	RSA Second and last spaceflight

Mission parameters

• Perigee
  : 384 km
• Apogee
  : 396 km
• Inclination
  : 51.6°
• Orbital period: 92 min

Mission objectives

Chiao and Sharipov docked at the Space Station on 16 October 2004 aboard

The launch of Expedition 10 was rescheduled. During preflight testing, an explosive bolt was accidentally activated on the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft. The resulting damage caused was repaired and the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 14 October 2004.

During the Expedition 10 mission, two

The re-entry of the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft was perfect, returning the astronauts to Earth 53 miles northeast of the town of Arkalyk after 192 days, 19 hours and 2 minutes in space. The recovery team reached the capsule in minutes.

Crew

Shuttle-Mir

docking mission in 1998.

Spacewalks

The Expedition 10 crew completed two

spacewalks, including experiment installation and tasks to prepare the Station for the arrival of the new European Automated Transfer Vehicle

in 2006. Instead, the Automated Transfer Vehicle came in 2008. The first spacewalk took place on 26 January 2005 and the second on 28 March 2005.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to ISS Expedition 10.

• NASA.gov
• NASA.gov
• Expedition 10 Photography