13 members of Space Shuttle Endeavour, Int'l Space Station gather for news conference

All thirteen members of the joint crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station representing all the partner countries gather for a news conference in this image from NASA TV July 25, 2009. The astronauts are: (front row) Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky, Station Commander cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and Dave Wolf. Behind the front row are: (L-R) Pilot Doug Hurley, Tim Kopra, cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Michael Barratt, Christopher Cassidy, the Canadian Space Agency's Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, Tom Marshburn and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Koichi Wakata.

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