September 4, 2006. ... Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Anoushek Ansari performed a fit check of Sokol-KB spacesuits. The cosmonauts and astronauts inspected Soyuz TMA-9 space vehicle, accomplished a fit check of the individual seat liners, became familiar with the flight data files and the list of cargo to be delivered, verified functionality of the radio communication equipment, as well as had a lesson on the scientific experiments. ...