Another space expedition flies to ISS

A Russian Soyuz FG rocket launched the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) at 07:32 (MSK). 

The crew which flew to ISS on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft today includes Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakhstani cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.

The flight will last for two days, the ship will dock with the station on September 4th at 10.42 (MSK). It had been initially planned to dock with the station 6 hours after blast-off, but for safety considerations it was decided to use a two-day flight pattern, TASS reports.

The current crew of the International Space Station comprises Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Korniyenko and Oleg Kononenko, US astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.