Stock Photo - Astronaut John L. Phillips, Expedition 11 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, talks to the press on April 14, 2005 just one day prior to his launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (out of frame), commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, and Phillips will spend six months on the Station, replacing Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, while European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori (out of frame) of Italy 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.