SPACE
New Soyuz crew photo
April 19, 2004 - Soyuz TMA-4 blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a mission to the International Space Station.
Picture shows members of Expedition 9, the new crew of the International Space Station: NASA Station Science Officer Mike Fincke (left); Expedition 9 Commander, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (centre); European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands. Kuipers will return to Earth on April 30 with the current space station crew: Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Mike Foale and Russian cosmonaut, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri, have been on the station since last October.