International Space Station Expedition 17 Official Crew Photograph #3

ISS Expedition 17 Crew Full Colour 8"x10" Portrait

(14 Feb. 2008) --- Astronauts Greg Chamitoff (right) and Garrett Reisman, both Expedition 17 flight engineers, take a break from training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to pose for a portrait. Reisman will launch to the International Space Station on the STS-123 mission of Endeavour in March 2008, joining Expedition 16 in progress and will provide Expedition 17 with an experienced flight engineer for the first part of its increment. Chamitoff is scheduled to launch to the station on the STS-124 mission of Discovery in June, joining Expedition 17 in progress. Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko (both not pictured), commander and flight engineer, respectively, are scheduled to launch to the complex in the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in April for a six-month mission.