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Expedition 9 Preflight Activities
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The flags of all three crew members' countries fly outside the Cosmonaut Hotel after European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, Expedition 9 Flight Engineer and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Mike Fincke, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka, Backup Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, backup European Space Agency astronaut Gerhard Thiele of Germany and NASA Expedition 9 backup commander Leroy Chiao raised them during a ceremony, Thursday, April 15, 2004,
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineExpedition 9 Preflight Activities. NASA/HQ, 2004-04-14. Public domain. ID: 20040415_exp9_04.
