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Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749
RELEASE: H07-039
WASHINGTON - NASA and its international partners have named the crews
that will live and work aboard the International Space Station for
the next two years. The crew members make up three expeditions to the
station and represent four space agencies.
NASA astronaut and veteran station crew member Peggy A. Whitson will
command Expedition 16, set to begin in fall 2007. The flight
engineers for the mission include cosmonaut and Russian Air Force
Col. Yuri I. Malenchenko, ESA astronaut and French Air Force Brig.
Gen. Leopold Eyharts and NASA astronaut Garrett E. Reisman.
Malenchenko will command the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry
him and Whitson to the station and return them to Earth in spring
2008. They will join NASA astronaut Daniel M. Tani aboard the
station.
Reisman will remain on the station for about six months and return on
shuttle mission STS-119, targeted for summer 2008.
Russian Air Force Lt. Col. Sergei Volkov will command Expedition 17.
Expedition 17 flight engineers include cosmonaut Oleg D. Kononenko
and NASA astronaut Sandra H. Magnus.
Volkov will command the Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and
Kononenko to the station in spring 2008 and bring them home in fall
2008. Magnus will arrive on STS-119 and remain aboard the station.
Magnus will return on the STS-126 mission targeted for summer 2008.
NASA astronaut and station veteran Air Force Lt. Col. E. Michael
Fincke will command Expedition 18. Expedition 18 flight engineers
include cosmonaut and veteran station crew member Russian Air Force
Col. Salizhan S. Sharipov, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA
astronaut Gregory E. Chamitoff.
Sharipov will command the Soyuz that will carry him and Fincke to the
station in fall 2008 and back to Earth in spring 2009.
Cosmonaut and veteran station crew member Sergei Krikalev for Volkov
Cosmonaut Russian Air Force Col. Maxim V. Suraev for Kononenko
NASA astronaut Nicole P. Stott for Magnus.
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio.html
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
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