Soyuz TMA-18 was a 2010 Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS). TMA-18 was the 105th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first crewed flight in 1967.
Soyuz TMA-18 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, 2 April 2010.
From left to right: Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and KornienkoSoyuz programme (Crewed missions)← Soyuz TMA-17Soyuz TMA-19 →
Soyuz TMA-18 approaches the ISS.
The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft departs the ISS.
Expedition 23 was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010. The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:04 EST on 2 April 2010.
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(l-r) Korniyenko, Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov, Kotov, Creamer and NoguchiISS expeditions← Expedition 22Expedition 24 →
The three astronauts of STS-131 and Tracy Caldwell (bottom left) of ISS Expedition 23, the first time four women being at the same time in space.
Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Korniyenko in front of their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft.
