Expedition 17 Portrait

JSC2008-E-027004 (March 2008) --- Two Expedition 17 crewmembers pose for a portrait with a spaceflight participant at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. From the left are South Korea's So-yeon Yi, spaceflight participant; along with Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, Expedition 17 commander; and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer. The three will launch aboard Soyuz TMA-12 on April 8. The two cosmonauts will spend six months on the International Space Station, and So-yeon Yi will spend several days on the station before returning to Earth with the Expedition 16 crew. Volkov and Kononenko will join NASA Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who arrived on the station in mid-March. CREDIT: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center