Soyuz TMA-17M launched from Baikonur Site 1/5 on July 22, 2015 with Oleg Kononenko, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren. The spacecraft reached the International Space Station on July 23, supporting Expeditions 44 and 45. The mission carried Yui and Lindgren on their first spaceflights and returned the same three-person crew to Kazakhstan on December 11, 2015.