Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft launch

JSC2004-E-46229 (14 October 2004) --- The Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 14, 2004, carrying astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA Space Station science officer, cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov, Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander, and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin to the orbital outpost. The crew will dock to the Station on October 16, and Chiao and Sharipov will replace the current Station crewmembers, cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, and astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA Space Station science officer and flight engineer, who will return to Earth October 24 with Shargin. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls