December 16, 2009. Baikonur launch site,
branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia

In the assembly/test building primary (Oleg Kotov (Roscosmos, Russia), Timothy Creamer (NASA, USA), Soichi Noguchi (JAXA, Japan),) and backup (Anton Shkaplerov (Roscosmos, Russia), Douglas Wheelock (NASA, USA), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA, Japan)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-17 transportation spacecraft made a check inspection of the spacecraft in the launch configuration and got acquainted with equipment to be delivered and returned to the ground.