Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, left, representing the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Jeffrey Williams will be launched on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft to spend six months on the International Space Station. Image credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Expedition 13 crew named

NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as the next crew for the International Space Station, designated as Expedition 13.

Williams, KD5TVQ, will serve as Expedition 13 flight engineer and NASA science officer. He flew aboard the shuttle Atlantis on a 10-day station assembly mission in May of 2000.

Vinogradov will command Expedition 13. He spent 198 days on the Russian Mir Space Station and performed five spacewalks during a mission in 1997