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JSC2006-E-40786 (20 Sept. 2006) --- At the Russian Mission Control Center outside Moscow, Hamid Ansari (left) talks on the phone with his wife, Anousheh Ansari, during her first moments onboard the International Space Station. Ansari and the Expedition 14 crew docked to the International Space Station Wednesday, September 20, 2006. A Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Sept. 18, 2006 with astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA ISS science officer; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Soyuz commander and Expedition 14 flight engineer; along with American businesswoman Ansari, who will spend nine days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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