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JSC2005-E-15904 (14 April 2005) --- Expedition 11 backup and prime crewmembers talk to the press on April 14, 2005 just one day prior to their launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From the left are Expedition 11 backup crew Robert B. Thirsk representing the Canadian Space Agency; astronaut Daniel M. Tani; Russian Commander Mikhail Tyurin; and prime crew Russian Commander Sergei K. Krikalev; NASA ISS science officer and Flight Engineer John L. Phillips; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months on the Station, replacing Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, while Vittori will spend eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency, returning to Earth with Chiao and Sharipov on April 25. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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