English: At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, U.S. Army Soldier and NASA flight engineer Col. Timothy J. Creamer checks out the systems inside the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft during a dress rehearsal at the launch site Dec. 10, 2009 in preparation for the Dec. 21 launch to the International Space Station. Creamer will launch with Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for a six-month stay on the complex. They will join Expedition 22 commander Col. (Ret.) Jeffrey Williams of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, who have been on the station since October.