Stock Photo - Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer, waits as his crew prepares to do their final Soyuz fit check at building 254, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Expedition 9 crew is scheduled to launch on April 19, 2004, to the ISS for arrival on April 21. Padalka and Fincke will spend six months on the ISS, replacing the Expedition 8 crew, which has been aboard the Station since October 20, 2003. Kuipers, who is flying under a commercial contract between ESA and Russia's Federal Space Agency, will return to Earth with the Expedition 8 crew on April 30, 2004. Photo Credit: NASABill Ingalls