William Gerstenmaier NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations speaks on the phone to the crews of the International Space Station.

William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations speaks on the phone to the crews of the International Space Station, October 12, 2007 from the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside of Moscow. Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor docked their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft to the station at 10:50 a.m. EDT. Oct. 12, 2007. The crew launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"