Expedition 11 Preflight

Expedition 11 Flight Engineer John Phillips, left, European Space Agency Astronaut Roberto Vittori, of Italy and Commander Sergei Krikalev, right, walk in the Cosmonaut hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, April 11, 2005. The trio will launch April 15 aboard a Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months in space and greet the first Shuttle crew to fly in more than two years when it arrives at the station, while Vittori will spend eight days on the station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)