Sergey Volkov (Roscosmos), Andreas Mogensen (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov (Kazakh Space Agency) will join 6 others on the International Space Station (ISS) in two days after their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 2nd, 2015.
It will mark the first time since 2013 that the ISS will be inhabited by 9 people. Though it will be short lived as Mogensen and Aimbetov will join Commander Gennady Padalka on his return trip to Earth on September 11th.
Credit: NASA