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DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS

21 April 2004

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Credits: NASA

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The DELTA Mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew lifted off on Monday 19 April in the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft on flight 8S to the International Space Station. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 09.19 local time (05.19 Central European Time).

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja 2004

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DELTA crew and ISS crew shortly after ingress

André Kuipers with ISS Expedition crews eight and nine shortly after ingress

From left to right: Alexander Kaleri, Gennadi Padalka, André Kuipers, Michael Fincke and Michael Foale. (21 April 2004)

Credits: NASA

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HEAT experiment for the DELTA Mission - a technology demonstration experiment looking at the heat transfer performance of a grooved heat pipe.

Credits: Euro Heat Pipes sa

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Crew portrait Soyuz flight 8S. Left to right NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz commander Gennadi Padalka, Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers. (March 2004)

Credits: ESA/GCTC

DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut