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The six astronauts and one cosmonaut comprising the STS-100 crew assemble in the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA-2) while waiting to visit the Expedition Two crew and the International Space Station (ISS). With his arm extended to left foreground is astronaut Kent V. Rominger, STS-100 mission commander. In the circular arrangement of crew members, clockwise from Rominger's position, are astronauts Umberto Guidoni, Scott E. Parazynski, Chris A. Hadfield, Jeffrey S. Ashby and John L. Phillips. Cosmonaut Yuri V. Lonchakov's head emerges at bottom center. On the other side of the glass were the Expedition Two crew members--cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev and astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms. Lonchakov and Usachev represent Rosaviakosmos; Hadfield is with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Guidoni is associated with the European Space Agency (ESA). The ten were beginning a day that went on to see the first opening of hatches linking the two spacecraft, an impressive first step by the station’s new Canadarm2 and the berthing to the station of Raffaello, the Italian-built logistics module. Hatch opening was set for 4 a.m (CDT), April 23.