On 17 October 2003, Cervantes Mission crew and backup crew during the press conference (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan).
From left to right: Cervantes Mission crew: NASA astronaut Michael Foale, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and European astronaut Pedro Duque. Cervantes Mission backup crew: NASA astronaut William Surles McArthur, Russian cosmonaut Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, and European astronaut André Kuipers.