Soyuz TMA-15 crew at the pre-launch press conference at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 26 May 2009. The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is scheduled for launch at 12:34 CEST on 27 May 2009. Left to right: Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield (back-up to Thirsk), Russian cosmonaut Dmitri Kondratiev (back-up to Romanenko) and ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers (back-up to De Winne).