Soyuz TMA-4 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was launched on 19 April 2004 (UTC) from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the US and André Kuipers from the Netherlands were flown to the International Space Station. Kuipers returned to Earth 9 days later together with ISS crew 8 with the re-entry module of the Soyuz TMA-3, the other two stayed as ISS crew 9. The craft landed 24 October 2004 with Padalka, Fincke and Yuri Shargin aboard.

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Gennady Padalka, Roscosmos[1] Expedition 9 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Michael Fincke, NASA[1] Expedition 9 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	André Kuipers, ESA[2] First spaceflight	Yuri Shargin, Roscosmos[1] Only spaceflight

Position	Crew
Commander	Talgat Musabayev, Roscosmos N/A (Taxi Flight) Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Hans Schlegel, ESA N/A (Taxi Flight) Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer or Spaceflight Participant	Spaceflight Participant or Russian Cosmonaut N/A (Taxi Flight) First spaceflight

• Mass: ? kg
• Perigee: 200 km
• Apogee: 252 km
• Inclination: 51.7°
• Period: 88.7 minutes

• Docked to ISS: 21 April 2004, 05:01 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
• Undocked from ISS: 23 October 2004, 21:08 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya)

Soyuz TMA-4 is a Russian passenger spacecraft that was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur at 03:19 UT on 19 April 2004. It carried three astronauts (a Russian, an American and a Dutchman) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the Zarya module of the ISS automatically on 21 April at 05:01 UT. Two of its astronauts remained in the ISS for about six months, while the Dutch astronaut and the two astronauts who had inhabited the ISS for several months left the ISS on 29 April in the TMA-3 that had remained docked with the ISS, soft landing in Kazakhstan at 00:11 on 30 April.

The Expedition 10 crew, Leroy Chiao-Cdr U.S.A. and Salizhan Sharipov-Russia replaced the Expedition 9 crew, Gennady Padalka-Cdr Russia and Michael Fincke-Flight Engineer-U.S.A. on 16 October 2004.