• Sergei Volkov, 35, was the youngest person to command the ISS. • Garrett Reisman was the first Jewish resident of the ISS. • Gregory Chamitoff was the first crewmember to take bagels with him to the station; three bags of 18
sesame seed bagels. • Reisman launched to the station on
STS-123 in March, which was during the
Expedition 16 spaceflight. He landed on
STS-124. • Chamitoff launched to the station on STS-124 in June, and stayed through
Expedition 18, leaving the station on
STS-126 in November.
Backup crew •
Maksim Surayev – Commander – RSA (for Volkov) •
Oleg Skripochka – Flight Engineer – RSA (for Kononenko) •
Timothy Kopra – Flight Engineer – NASA (for Chamitoff) ==References==