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JSC2004-E-19927 (21 April 2004) --- Renita Fincke, wife of astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA Expedition 9 International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer, smiles with their two-year old son, Chandra, at Russia’s Federal Space Agency Mission Control Center outside Moscow April 21, 2004, following the successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft carrying Fincke, cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 mission commander, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands to the ISS. Fincke and Padalka will spend six months on the Station. Kuipers will spend nine days on the complex, returning April 30 with the Expedition 8 crew. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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