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.



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