Yi So-yeon
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San Ko (right) and So-yeon Yi (center), South Korean prime and backup spaceflight participants, respectively, participate in a space station hardware training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. San is scheduled to launch with the Expedition 17 crew on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft April 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome under a commercial agreement between the South Korean government and Roscosmos for nine days on the International Space Station; San is scheduled to return to Earth April 19 with the Expedition 16 crew. United Space Alliance (USA) instructor Glenn Johnson assisted the spaceflight participants. However, Yi Soyeon replaces his position now.
Backup spaceflight participant So-Yeon Yi listens to a news reporter's question for spaceflight participant San Ko (out of frame) of South Korea during an Expedition 17 press briefing on Jan. 15, 2008 at the Johnson Space Center. [Soyeon Yi has been named to replace San Ko as South Korea's first astronaut, it was announced March 10.]
International Space Station Imagery
ISS016-E-036365 (17 April 2008) --- NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (right), Expedition 16 commander; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer; and South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi pose for a photo in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.