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The Soyuz TMA-5 vehicle rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 12, 2004, in preparation for its launch October 14 to send astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer; cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 10 flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin to the ISS. Chiao and Sharipov will replace the Expedition 9 crew, cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, and astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, while Shargin conducts 8 days of scientific experiments. He will return to Earth with Padalka and Fincke October 24.