are there female astronauts on the space station?”
Expedition 17 is the 17th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The first two crew members, Sergey Volkov, and Oleg Kononenko were launched on April 8, 2008, aboard Soyuz TMA-12. Once at the ISS, they joined Garrett Reisman, who transfered from Expedition 16 to join the Expedition 17 crew. Reisman will be replaced by Gregory Chamitoff, who just launched on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Female crew in the past: Peggy Whitson was the commander of Expedition 16 and a member of Expedtion 5. Sunita Williams was a member of Expeditions 15 and 16. Susan Helms was on Expedtion 2 in 2001. Astronaut Susan J. Helms, Expedition Two flight engi
