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JSC2008-E-117664 (28 Aug. 2008) --- Expedition 18 crewmembers take a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait. From the left (front row) are Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus. From the left (back row) are Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, flight engineer and commander, respectively. Fincke and Lonchakov are scheduled to launch to the station in the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in October for a six-month mission. Magnus is scheduled to join Expedition 18, replacing Chamitoff (currently on the station), as flight engineer after launching to the ISS on mission STS-126. Wakata is scheduled to join Expedition 18, replacing Magnus, as flight engineer after launching to the orbital complex on mission STS-119. Photo credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center