On May 29, 2014 at 01:44 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-13M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Rassvet” (MIM) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime.

The Soyuz TMA-13M delivered three new members of Expedition 40 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, American astronaut Gregory Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. The hatches between the "Soyuz TMA-13M” and the space station were opened at 03:52 UTC on May 29, 2014. The new comers joined current ISS expedition members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev as well as American astronaut Steven Swanson to form Expedition 40 crew of 6 members. The six crew members will be working together aboard the orbital station until September 2014.