Robert Thirsk and Frank De Winne

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and ESA astronaut Frank De Winne are seen on the bus outside the Cosmonaut Hotel at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, shortly before they depart for building 254 where they will don their flights suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 CEST (27 May 2009).