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Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (foreground), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, are pictured near one of the hatches on the International Space Station (ISS) as they prepare to welcome the crewmembers onboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft, carrying astronaut C. Michael Foale, Expedition 8 mission commander and NASA ISS science officer; cosmonaut Alexander Y. Kaleri, Soyuz commander and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain, docked to the Station at 2:16 a.m. (CDT) on October 20, 2003. Malenchenko and Kaleri represent Rosaviakosmos.