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Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (center left), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 11 commander; astronaut John L. Phillips (left), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy answer reporters questions and bid farewell to their Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on April 9, 2005. The trio will travel to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. Krikalev, Phillips and Vittori will launch April 15 (Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft to the ISS. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months in space and greet the first Shuttle crew to fly in more than two years. Vittori will spend eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (center left), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 11 commander; astronaut John L. Phillips (left), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy answer reporters questions and bid farewell to their Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on April 9, 2005. The trio will travel to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. Krikalev, Phillips and Vittori will launch April 15 (Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft to the ISS. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months in space and greet the first Shuttle crew to fly in more than two years. Vittori will spend eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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