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'Expedition 17' is the 17th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
The first two crew members, Sergey Volkov, and Oleg Kononenko are scheduled for launch on April 8 2008, aboard Soyuz TMA-12, together with the first South Korean astronaut.
If STS-119 launches on schedule, they will be joined by Sandra Magnus, who will be launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on June 19, 2008.

Contents

Crew

First part (April to June 2008)

Second part (June 2008 to September 2008 )

Back-up crew

Source

Crew

First part (April to June 2008)

★ ''Sergei Volkov (1)'' Commander -

★ ''Oleg Kononenko (1)'' Flight Engineer -

★ Garrett Reisman
★ (1) - Flight Engineer -

Second part (June 2008 to September 2008 )

★ ''Sergei Volkov (1)'' Commander -

★ ''Oleg Kononenko (1)'' Flight Engineer -

★ Gregory Chamitoff (1) - Flight Engineer -

★ Participation in Expedition 17 is contingent upon the launch of STS-124.
(#) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.

Back-up crew

★ Maksim Surayev - Commander - Russia

★ Oleg Skripochka - Flight Engineer - Russia

★ Timothy Kopra - Flight Engineer - U.S.A. (for Reisman)

★ Nicole Stott - Flight Engineer - U.S.A. (for Magnus)

Source

★ NASA Announces Three International Space Station Crews