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JSC2005-E-15142 (10 April 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (left), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 11 commander; astronaut John L. Phillips (center), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy discuss the checkout of the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft with Russian space officials at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 10, 2005. 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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