US astronaut Peggy Whitson speaks during a news conference in Star City outside Moscow, 20 September 2007. A Russian space flight commission has approved the members of the main crew, US astronaut Peggy Whitson, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Russia's Yury Malenchenko and reserve crew for the 16th expedition to the International Space Station and the launch of an international space crew is set to take off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 10 October 2007. AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MARMUR (Photo credit should read MAXIM MARMUR/AFP via Getty Images)
