SOYUZ TMA-18M

SOYUZ TMA-18M is no longer on orbit
SOYUZ TMA-18M is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40885

Int'l Code: 2015-043A

Launch date: September 2, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 2016-03-02

Soyuz TMA-18M is a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 2 September 2015. It will provide the two twelve-months occupants (Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M is the 127th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The ascent flight consists of a Russian commander and two flight engineers from Denmark (ESA) and Kazakhstan respectively. Originally the third member should have been the British singer Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but on May 13, 2015, she announced she had withdrawn from training. The Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov is of the first Kazakh cosmonaut class, and the first selected to fly. The ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will become the first Dane in space.