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JSC2005-E-15224 (11 April 2005) --- Expedition 11 backup and prime crewmembers participate in the traditional raising of their countries’ flags outside their crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on April 11, 2005. Pictured from left to right are prime crewmembers, cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 11 commander; European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy; astronaut John L. Phillips, NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; and backup crewmembers cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Russia’s Federal Space Agency commander; astronaut Daniel M. Tani, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer; and Robert B. Thirsk representing the Canadian Space Agency. 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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