Expedition 7

Expedition 7 was a two-person International Space Station resident increment commanded by Yuri Malenchenko with Edward Lu as flight engineer and NASA ISS science officer. The crew launched on Soyuz TMA-2 from Baikonur on April 26, 2003, docked with the station on April 28, and officially took over station operations after Soyuz TMA-1 undocked on May 3. Operating in the reduced-crew period after the Columbia accident, Malenchenko and Lu maintained the station, supported Progress cargo traffic, and carried out a scaled research program spanning human physiology, materials science, Earth observation, education, and station-environment monitoring. They returned on Soyuz TMA-2 on October 28, 2003.