Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (foreground), Expedition Seven commander; and astronaut Edward T. Lu , NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, practice in a Soyuz capsule simulator as part of their training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Malenchenko and Lu are scheduled to be launched in the spring of 2003 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz TMA-2 capsule to begin a six-month stay on the International Space Station.
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Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (foreground), Expedition Seven commander; and astronaut Edward T. Lu , NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, practice in a Soyuz capsule simulator as part of their training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Malenchenko and Lu are scheduled to be launched in the spring of 2003 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz TMA-2 capsule to begin a six-month stay on the International Space Station.