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JSC2005-E-15140 (10 April 2005) --- Expedition 11 backup and prime crewmembers discuss the checkout of the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft with Russian space officials at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 10, 2005. Pictured from left to right are backup crewmembers astronauts Daniel M. Tani, NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; Robert B. Thirsk representing the Canadian Space Agency; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Russia’s Federal Space Agency commander; and prime crewmembers cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Russia’s Federal Space Agency commander; astronaut John L. Phillips, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy. Krikalev, Phillips and Vittori will launch April 15 (Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft to the ISS. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months in space and greet the first Shuttle crew to fly in more than two years. Vittori will spend eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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