... On 23 July 2003, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA) concluded a contract on a flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, member of the European astronaut corps, as a flight engineer of transport manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-4 as part of the visiting crew VC-6 (April 2004, ISS-8, ISS-9 phase) to the International Space Station (ISS), and performance of DSM DELTA Project (ESA) scientific investigations and experiments. ...