Published on November 22, 2017
Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos donned their Sokol launch and entry suits, climbed aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft and undocked from the Poisk module on the Earth-facing side of the Russian segment of the International Space Station Aug. 28 for a brief flyover and redocking to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module. The relocation of the TMA-16M spacecraft was required to clear the Poisk docking port for the arrival of a new Soyuz spacecraft — the TMA-18M — on Sept. 4.
