   expedition 8 was the eighth expedition to the international space station. ==crew==  ==original crew==  ==mission parameters== *perigee: 384&nbsp;km *apogee: 396&nbsp;km *inclination: 51.6Â° *period: 92 min *docked: 20 october 2003 - 07:15:58 utc *undocked: 29 april 2004 - 20:52:09 utc *time docked: 192 days, 13 h, 36 min, 11 s ---- thumb|left|250px|foale and kaleri conduct a teleconference with moscow as part of the russian new year celebration.(nasa) ==mission objectives== expedition 8 commander and nasa station science officer michael foale, flight engineer alexander kaleri and esa astronaut pedro duque docked the soyuz tma-3 with the international space station at 07:15:58 utc on 20 october 2003. at the time of docking, both spacecraft orbited the earth above russia. once the expedition 7 crew undocked, foale and kaleri settled down to work, beginning a more than six-month stint focused on station operations and maintenance. the new station crew, along with duque, launched from th
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