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Expedition 16 crew portrait.
From left, front: Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer and Soyuz commander, and ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts, flight engineer.
From left, back: NASA astronaur Daniel Tani, flight engineer and astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 16 commander.
ISS Expedition 16 crew will play an important role in monitoring manoeuvres during the ATV rendezvous with the International Space Station.
ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts will stay on board ISS for two months as a member of the Expedition 16 crew.