Expedition 11 Preflight

Expedition 11 Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer John Phillips talks with his backup Dan Tani. Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer John Phillips and European Space Agency Astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy don their flight suits prior to their launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at daybreak on April 15, 2005 for a two-day trip to the International Space Station. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months on the Station, replacing Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, while Vittori will spend eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency, returning to Earth with Chiao and Sharipov on April 25. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

Expedition 11 Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer John Phillips, right, talks with his backup Dan Tani during suit up at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 15, 2005, prior to launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft for a two-day trip to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Photographer NASA/Bill Ingalls
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