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JSC2006-E-39241 (5 Sept. 2006) --- Expedition 14 prime and backup crewmembers participate in the traditional flag-raising ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Sept. 5, 2006 as they prepare for their launch Sept. 18 on a Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft to the International Space Station. From the left are cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer and Soyuz commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari; astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, commander and NASA space station science officer; astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, backup commander and NASA space station science officer; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, backup flight engineer and Soyuz commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency. Photo credit: Victor Zelentsov/NASA
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