DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut   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).   Dutch ESA André Kuipers (right), Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Gennadi Padalka (centre) and NASA astronaut Mike Fincke (left), during the pre-launch press conference on 18 April 2004, ahead of the DELTA Mission to the International Space Station.   The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew lifted off today 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).   André Kuipers is strapped into a launch seat and undergoes a final pressure test of his Sokol pressure suit prior to being transferred to the launch pad to board the Soyuz TMA-4 for launch of the Delta Mission to the International Space Station. The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew lifted off today 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). Release date: 24 July 2008