Soyuz MS-18 “Y. A. Gagarin” docking

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft automatically docked to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module on 9 April 2021, at 11:05 UTC (07:05 EDT). The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, is named “Y. A. Gagarin” to celebrate 60 years since the first human spaceflight in history, the Vostok-1 mission that launched Yuri Gagarin in space on 12 April 1961. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos Soyuz MS-18 docking to the ISS #SoyuzMS18 Стыковка Союз МС-18 с МКС #СоюзМС18