Expedition 17 was the 17th expedition to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest Modular design, modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos ( ...

(ISS). The first two crew members, Sergey Volkov, and Oleg Kononenko were launched on 8 April 2008, aboard the Soyuz TMA-12. Once aboard the station, they joined Garrett Reisman, who transferred from Expedition 16 to join the Expedition 17 crew. Reisman was replaced by Gregory Chamitoff, who launched aboard the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' mission

STS-124 STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' to the International Space Station. ''Discovery'' launched on 31 May 2008 at 17:02 EDT, moved from an earlier scheduled launch date of 25 May 2008, and landed safely at ...

on 31 May 2008. Volkov and Kononenko landed safely on 24 October 2008, while Chamitoff remained aboard the station as an Expedition 18 crewmember.

Crew

*Sergei Volkov, 35, was the youngest person to command the ISS. *Garrett Reisman was the first Jewish resident of the ISS. *Gregory Chamitoff was the first crewmember to take bagels with him to the station; three bags of 18 sesame seed bagels.Block, Irwin (3 June 2008
"Here's proof: Montreal bagels are out of this world"
, ''The Gazette'' (Montreal), Section A, Page A2 *Reisman launched to the station on STS-123 in March, which was during the Expedition 16 spaceflight. He landed on

. *Chamitoff launched to the station on STS-124 in June, and stayed through Expedition 18, leaving the station on

STS-126 STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and twenty-second orbital flight of the ''Space Shuttle Endeavour'' (OV-105) to the International Space Station (ISS). The purpose of the mission, referred to as ULF2 by ...

in November.

Backup crew

* Maksim Surayev - Commander - RSA (for Volkov) * Oleg Skripochka - Flight Engineer - RSA (for Kononenko) *

Timothy Kopra Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboar ...

- Flight Engineer - NASA (for Chamitoff)

References

External links

Expedition 17 Photography
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