Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke looks at a desert tulip just outside the gates to the Soyuz launch pad, Wednesday, April 14, 2004 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 9 Preflight Activities
Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke, right, makes a photograph of European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands with a desert tulip just outside the gates to the Soyuz launch pad, Wednesday, April 14, 2004 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 9 Preflight Activities
Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke, foreground, leaps over a ditch after the Expedition 9 prime and backup crews stopped to look at desert tulips just outside the gates to the Soyuz launch pad, Wednesday, April 14, 2004 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 9 Preflight Activities
Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, left, European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, center and Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke stop to pose for a photograph with desert tulips just outside the gates to the Soyuz launch pad, Wednesday, April 14, 2004, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 9 Preflight Activities