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JSC2004-E-19836 (19 April 2004) --- Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka (far left), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 mission commander; European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers (center) of the Netherlands; and astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (right), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer, wave to a crowd from their bus which will took the crew from the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, to the suit up facility. The crew launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Monday, April 19, 2004, in route to the ISS. Padalka and Fincke will spend six months on the ISS, replacing the Expedition 8 crew, which has been aboard the Station since October 20, 2003. Kuipers, who is flying under a commercial contract between ESA and Russia’s Federal Space Agency, will return to Earth with the Expedition 8 crew on April 30, 2004. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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