JSC2004-E-19651 (20 April 2004) --- Astronauts Edward T. Lu (left) and Gregory E. Chamitoff, discuss data at the spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston?s Mission Control Center (MCC) during rendezvous and docking operations between the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft and the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz, which carried cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Russia?s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 commander; astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, docked with the Station at 12:01 a.m. (CDT) on April 21, 2004.
Photographer Robert Markowitz