Soyuz TMA-18M crew portrait

The Soyuz TMA-18M official crew picture from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. From left, Aidyn Aimbetov (KazCosmos), Sergei Volkov (Roscosmos) and Andreas Mogensen (ESA).

The Danish flight engineer, commander Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aimbetov will leave Earth from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, at 04:34 GMT (06:34 CEST, 10:34 local time) on 2 September 2015 and arrive at the Space Station just six hours later.

Andreas and Aidyn’s stay will be short – they will be back on terra firma just 10 days later. They will leave Sergei on the Station and return to Earth in a different Soyuz under commander Gennady Padalka, who is already in space.

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