Soyuz TMA-3/7S approach

ISS007-E-17736 (20 October 2003) --- This picture of a distant Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft was recorded by one of the Expedition 7 crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Two days after launching from Kazakhstan, the Soyuz, 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 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.