Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Officer Leroy Chiao, right, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and NASA Public Affairs Officer Rob Navias, left, review the Soyuz flight plan while on the plane taking the crew from Star City, Russia to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, Oct. 4, 2004. The crew will launch on the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft October 14, 2004 to the International Space Station. Chiao and Sharipov will spend six months on the Station, while Shargin will return to Earth October 24 with Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke, who have been in space since April. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)