Stock Photo - Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (right), Expedition 1920 commander, welcomes Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 2021 flight engineer, after Thirsk arrived onboard a Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft with European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne (out of frame) and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko (out of frame), both flight engineers. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:34 a.m. (CDT), May 27, 2009, and arrived at the station at 7:34 a.m. (CDT) on May 29, beginning Expedition 20 and six-person crew operations.

Stock Photo: Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (right), Expedition 1920 commander, welcomes Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 2021 flight engineer.

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