EXPEDITION 15

'Expedition 15' is the 15th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Four crew members are scheduled to participate in the expedition, although for most of the expedition's duration only three will be on the station at any one time. During Expedition 15, the ISS Integrated Truss Structure was expanded twice: STS-117 brought the S3/S4 truss, and STS-118 brought the S5 truss.

Contents

Crew

First part (April to June 2007)

Second part (June to October 2007)

Back-up crew

References

External links

Crew

Flight Engineer Sunita Williams was the first to arrive. She participated in Expedition 14 until Expedition 15 Commander
Fyodor Yurchikhin assumed command of the station. Williams was brought to the station 11 December, 2006 aboard the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' flight STS-116. Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived the station on 9 April, 2007 aboard Soyuz TMA-10.
On 26 April, 2007, NASA announced that Williams would return to Earth on STS-117, flown by Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', instead of STS-118 as originally planned.^[1] Williams was replaced by Clayton Anderson, who arrived at the station aboard ''Atlantis'', which docked on 10 June.
Expedition 15 will end after Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson arrives at the station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 and the two crews complete the station hand-over.

First part (April to June 2007)

★ Fyodor Yurchikhin (2) Commander -

★ Oleg Kotov (1) Flight Engineer -

★ Sunita Williams (1) Flight Engineer -

Second part (June to October 2007)

★ Fyodor Yurchikhin (2) Commander -

★ Oleg Kotov (1) Flight Engineer -

★ Clayton Anderson (1) Flight Engineer -
(-) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.

Back-up crew

★ Roman Romanenko Commander - Russia

★ Mikhail Korniyenko Flight Engineer - Russia

★ Gregory Chamitoff Flight Engineer - U.S.A. (for Anderson)

References

1.
NASA to Rotate Station Astronauts on Next Shuttle Mission

External links

★ NASA - International Space Station Expedition 15

★ EXPEDITION FIFTEEN (ISS-15)

★ ISS: Expedition 15

★ NASA press release announcing the crew

★ 04/04/07: Soyuz Assembly Complete: Expedition 15 to Launch on April 7. Site includes all ISS Status Reports since 2003.