Stock Photo - The Soyuz TMA-6 vehicle rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 13, 2005 in preparation for its launch April 15 (Kazakhstan time) to send cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Russia's Federal Space Agency Expedition 11 commander; astronaut John L. Phillips, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy to the International Space Station (ISS). Krikalev and Phillips will spend six months in space and greet the first Shuttle crew to fly in more than two years when it arrives at the Station, while Vittori spends eight days on the Station under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.