On Wednesday 28 May 2014, Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft lifted off from the Russian Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
After their launch, on board this Soyuz, Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency and flight engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, are making their way to the International Space Station.