Expedition 9 Soyuz Assembly. NASA public domain image colelction.

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Expedition 9 Soyuz Assembly. NASA public domain image colelction.

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Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome mate the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule with its booster rocket in preparation for a launch on April 19 of the Expedition 9 crew and a European astronaut to the International Space Station, Friday, April 16, 2004 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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