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JSC2006-E-39382 (4 Sept. 2006) --- Expedition 14 prime and backup crew members sit behind protective glass while they speak with Russian officials at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan prior to their launch on a Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft to the International Space Station scheduled for Sept. 18. From the left are spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer and Soyuz commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; 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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