The final approach and docking of Expedition 40/41, crew ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Roscosmos commander Maxim Suraev to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz spacecraft latched onto the Station’s docking ports at  01:44 GMT (03:44 CEST) 29 May 2014 after a six-hour flight.

The crew will stay on the International Space Station for six months and perform over 100 experiments during Alexander’s Blue Dot mission.