Stock Photo - European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy participates in a leak check on his Russian Sokol spacesuit, Soyuz inspection and seat liner check in the Soyuz Integration Facility prior to his launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a two-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch occurred at daybreak on April 15, 2005 (Kazakhstan time). Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev (out of frame), Expedition 11 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, and astronaut John L. Phillips, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, will spend six months on the Station, replacing Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, while Vittori will spend eight days on the ISS under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency, returning to Earth with Chiao and Sharipov on April 25.