ESA astronaut Frank De Winne shortly after leaving the Cosmonaut Hotel at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 27 May 2009. Together with Soyuz TMA-15 crewmates Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, De Winne was taken from the hotel to building 254 where they will don their flights suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 CEST.