Soyuz TMA-8 crew (L-R): Marcos Pontes, Jeffrey Williams, Pavel Vinogradov
Mission patch
Soyuz TMA-8, launched March 30, 2006, carried members of Expedition 13 to the International Space Station. Its crew consisted of Commander Pavel Vinogradov (Roscosmos), Jeffrey Williams (NASA) and Marcos Pontes (first Brazilian astronaut).
Pontes spent about a week on the ISS and returned with the crew of Expedition 12 on Soyuz TMA-7.
Vinogradov and Williams stayed on the ISS until September 29 when they returned to Earth with space tourist Anousheh Ansari, the first Iranian in space and the first self-funded woman in space. Ansari arrived at the ISS about a week before on Soyuz TMA-9.
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