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Astronaut Leroy Chiao (right), Expedition 10 commander and NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer, cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov (center), Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander, and Rob Navias (left), NASA Public Affairs Officer, review the Soyuz flight plan while on the plane taking the crew from Star City to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, where the crew will prepare for their launch on the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft October 14, 2004, to the ISS along with Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin. Chiao and Sharipov will spend six months on the Station, while Shargin will return to Earth October 23 (U.S.A. time) with cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, and astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, who have been in space since April.