ISS: Soyuz TMA-18M docks with ISS as Expedition 44 draws to a close

A Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at around 07:40 GMT, bringing with it new crew member Sergei Volkov, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, and two flight engineers - Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency, and Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency. Mogensen is the first Danish person to go into space. The flight is unusual in that the two flight engineers on board the Soyuz TMA-18M will not stay on the ISS for an extended mission, returning to Earth on September 11. The docking of the Soyuz TMA-18M will marks the conclusion of Expedition 44 and beginning of Expedition 45.