On September 04, 2015 at 07:39 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-18M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Poisk” (MIM-2) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime. The Soyuz TMA-18M delivered three new members of Expedition 45 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakhstan cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov. The new comers joined current ISS expedition members – Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Oleg Kononenko; American astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren; Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (油井 亀美也) to form the station’s crew of 9 members (so-called Expedition 44 and a half). When on September 12, 2015 Gennadiy Padalka, Andreas Mogensen and Aidyn Aimbetov return to Earth, the 6 others (Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Volkov, Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui) will form Expedition 45 crew.