October 11, 2008, Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . A session of the State Commission was held. ... The Prime Crew: the spacecraft commander, ISS-18 Flight Engineer 1, cosmonaut-tester of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russian Air Force Colonel Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov; the spacecraft flight engineer, ISS-18 commander, NASA astronaut, US Air Force Colonel Michael Fincke; space flight participant of the ISS visiting mission, USA citizen Richard Garriott. ...