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JSC2004-E-19676 (14 April 2004) --- Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (left background), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka (center background), Russia?s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 mission commander; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands (hidden from view in the right foreground) and the backup crew (in background) receive some final instruction from engineers, technicians and Valery Korzun (right foreground), Chief of Cosmonauts, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at building 254, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Fincke, Padalka and Kuipers are scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-4 vehicle on April 19, 2004, to the ISS for arrival on April 21. 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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