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ISS Expedition 16 crew

Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson (middle), Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (bottom) and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor wave farewell at the steps of the Soyuz rocket. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset Oct. 10, 2007, in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. This marks the first time an ISS expedition will be commanded by a woman. This also marks the first time the both commanders of the joint mission between ISS Expediton 16 and STS-120 will be women (Peggy Whitson, and Melroy, respectively).
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ISS Expedition 16 crew
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Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson (middle), Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (bottom) and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor wave farewell at the steps of the Soyuz rocket. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset Oct. 10, 2007, in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. This marks the first time an ISS expedition will be commanded by a woman. This also marks the first time the both commanders of the joint mission between ISS Expediton 16 and STS-120 will be women (Peggy Whitson, and Melroy, respectively).
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