Soyuz TMA-18M was a 2015

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spaceflight to the

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. It provided the two twelve-months occupants ( Scott Kelly and

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) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M was the 127th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The ascent flight consisted of a Russian commander and two flight engineers from Denmark (ESA) and Kazakhstan respectively. The flight launched in September 2015 and returned to Earth in March 2016. The Kazakh

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became the first Dane in space. The descent crew was the same Russian commander and the two twelve-months occupants in March 2016. Two of the ascent crew members returned to Earth with

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as a

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, but on May 13, 2015, she announced she had withdrawn from training. Japanese entrepreneur

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trained as Sarah Brightman's backup, but he withdrew from the flight as the art projects he had planned to carry out would not be ready by the September launch date. He stated he would try for a later flight when his projects were ready to fly. Russian businessman Filaret Galchev was offered the seat, but he realized that he didn't have the time to prepare himself for the flight. Roscosmos chose the Kazakh cosmonaut

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crew.

Later use

Today the spent Soyuz TMA-18M capsule is on display at th
Danish Museum of Science & Technology
in Elsinore.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Soyuz TMA-M18 Crewed Soyuz missions Spacecraft launched in 2015 2015 in Russia Spacecraft which reentered in 2016 Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-FG rockets

Later use

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