We had two human space transportation systems that are now in use for the international space station. One is the Russian Soyuz vehicle, and the other one is the U.S. space shuttle. Bob and Frank, together with Roman Romanenko from Russia, went up on the Soyuz, and I went up on the space shuttle mission.
This is before the strapping in, and this is just before the launch of STS-127 with Julie Payette on board. Nicole Stott was the robotic Canadarm2 operator to capture the Japanese HTV vehicle. Those launches were wonderful.
I have been only on the Soyuz. Maybe Bob can mention the differences between those two vehicles.