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International Space Station Imagery
Expedition 11 crew and ESA Astronaut Roberto Vittori
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JSC2005-E-16321 (15 April 2005) --- Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (bottom), Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; astronaut John L. Phillips (center), NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy wave goodbye from the base of the Soyuz rocket. The crew blasted off aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at daybreak on April 15, 2005 (Kazakhstan time) for a two-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS). 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 ISS 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

Curator: Kim Dismukes | Responsible NASA Official: John Ira Petty | Updated: 04/25/2005
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