CANCEL
Soyuz TMA-18M
Launch Date
September 2, 2015
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Soyuz TMA-18M
Launch Date
September 2, 2015
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Overview
Soyuz TMA-18M ferried a single crewmember for Expedition 45 to the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Mogensen and Kazakh cosmonaut Aimbetov joined for a short duration mission to the ISS and landed with Soyuz TMA-16M. This Soyuz mission landed the "Year In Space" crew of Kelly and Korniyenko.
Crafts
Soyuz
Soyuz is a human carrier capsule built and operated by Russia that can take up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded many times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crew vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.
