ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS   Anousheh Ansari, has been officially named to the Soyuz TMA-9 primary crew. The first female spaceflight participant will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 18, 2006 en route to the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Expedition 14 crew members: NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin.   Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams (left), Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and flight engineer; ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, flight engineer; and cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, pose on 4 September 2006 for a photo near the Unity node's growing collection of insignias representing crews who have lived and worked on the International Space Station Looking for bacteria onboard the ISS: SAMPLE Experiment     Where does back pain come from? Low Back Pain Experiment     What are the causes of anaemia? NEOCYTOLYSIS experiment     Loss of red blood cell mass, volume of blood plasma, and haemoglobin has been continuously observed in astronauts during space missions. This phenomenon has been termed “spatial anaemia” and the underlying mechanisms causing this are still not clear. This experiment aims to determine the degree of ‘stress’ that the red blood cells have undergone to bring about cell damage. Release date: 16 February 2007