On April 2004, ESA Astronaut Andre Kuipers took off for an eleven-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
This transmission is the last on a series of four ESA TV Exchanges on the DELTA mission, and it provides a summary of the mission, from last preparations in Baikonur, launch, docking, live and work on the ISS until arrival of Kuipers back at Star City in the afternoon of 30 April.

Delta Mission Summary
Astronauts walking up to platform 10.00.40 In the early hours of the 19th of April, the ISS Expedition 9 crew prepared to embark on their eleven-day Delta-mission to the International Space Station. Dutch ESA-astronaut Andre Kuipers was the flight engineer on this mission. He flew the Soyuz TMA-4 together with Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Mike Fincke. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Inside Soyuz during launch and in orbit 10.01.28 After nine minutes of propelled flight, the tension in the Soyuz was relieved as the crewmembers find themselves in zero-G, which means they are in orbit. It takes two days for the Soyuz to reach the ISS. This gives the astronauts a chance to adapt to space and weightlessness. But the experiment program for Andre Kuipers was so busy, he even had to start some of the experiments while still in the tiny Soyuz.
Docking Procedure 10.01.53 On the 21st of April the Soyuz docked to the Russian Zary