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• April 21: Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, left, American astronaut Peggy Whitson, centre and South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon pose after news conference in Star City, outside Moscow.
• April 21: American astronaut Peggy Whitson walks to a news conference in Star City, outside Moscow.
• April 21: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon looks on during a news conference in Star City, outside Moscow.
• April 19: Ground crew walk around the Soyuz landing capsule after it landed in northern Kazakhstan. The Soyuz capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut landed in northern Kazakhstan Saturday, several hundred kilometers off-target, Russian space officials said. Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said the condition of the crew South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon, American astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko was satisfactory, though the three had been subjected to severe G-forces during the re-entry.
• April 19: Ground crew check the area around the Soyuz landing capsule after it landed in northern Kazakhstan.
• April 19: Ground crew help South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon after landing in northern Kazakhstan.
• April 19: A rescue helicopter flies over smoke after the Soyuz capsule landed in northern Kazakhstan, more than 200 miles off target.
• April 19: Ground crew members help U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, after landing in northern Kazakhstan.
• April 19: Space agency officials help American astronaut Peggy Whitson, bottom, South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, center, and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko just after their arrival at the Chkalovsky airport near Star City, Russia.
• So-yeon Yi with packages of her country's space food inside the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
• International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson floats weightless during her six-month Expedition 16 mission.
• April 10: The crew members of Expeditions 16 and 17 participate in an interview aboard the International Space Station after their docking.
• April 10: The Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station.
• April 8: The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12 space ship carrying a new crew to the international space station (ISS) blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12 space ship carrying a new crew to the international space station (ISS) blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak and his wife Kim Yoon-ok react after the Soyuz TMA-12 spaceship's launching during the celebration of the country's first astronaut in front of a city hall in Seoul, South Korea.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, top, and two Russian cosmonauts, commander Sergei Volkov, bottom, and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko, center, crew members of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gesture prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, crew member of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gestures prior the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, bottom, crew member of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gestures as back up crew member Ko San looks on prior the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, crew member of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gestures prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, bottom, crew member of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and back up crew member Ko San look on prior to the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Ko had originally been slated to go into space, but was removed from the active roster after Russian authorities accused him of removing documents from the Baikonur library without permission.
• April 8: South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, left, and Russian cosmonaut, commander Sergei Volkov, crew members of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) speak prior to the launch of their Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: Russian cosmonaut Aleksander Volkov, left, accompanies his son Sergei Volkov, commander of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) prior to the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
• April 8: Russian cosmonaut Eugeny Leonov, right, accompanies South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, left, and two Russian cosmonauts, commander Sergei Volkov, 2nd left, and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko crew members of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) prior tp the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

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