American spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari giving a thumbs up as she prepares for pressure checks on her Russian Sokol suit at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Ansari was a spaceflight participant on Expedition 14 to the International Space Station (ISS) with Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Soyuz Commander and Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin onboard a Soyuz-TMA-9. Photographed on 18th September 2006.