Soyuz TMA-08M launched from Baikonur Site 1/5 on March 28, 2013 UTC and docked with the International Space Station's Poisk module on March 29 after a fast rendezvous profile. The spacecraft carried Roscosmos commander Pavel Vinogradov, Roscosmos flight engineer Aleksandr Misurkin, and NASA flight engineer Christopher Cassidy to the station for Expeditions 35 and 36. The crew supported station research, Russian-segment maintenance, spacewalks, visiting vehicles, and expedition handover operations before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-08M on September 11, 2013, landing near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.