Soyuz TMA-3/7S approach

ISS007-E-17730 (20 October 2003) --- Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft, carrying the two Expedition 8 crewmembers, astronaut C. Michael Foale, American commander and NASA ISS science officer; and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, flight engineer and Soyuz commander, along with European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque, docked with the International Space Station at 2:16 a.m. CDT (0716 GMT) October 20. At the time of the actual docking, both spacecraft were orbiting Earth above Russia.