It provided the two twelve-months occupants (Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule.

[8] Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu trained as Sarah Brightman's backup, but he withdrew from the flight as the art projects he had planned to carry out would not be ready by the September launch date.

[2] Russian businessman Filaret Galchev was offered the seat, but he realized that he didn't have the time to prepare himself for the flight.

[2] The spacecraft successfully landed on 2 March 2016 04:26 UTC,[9] returning the ISS year long mission crew.

Today the spent Soyuz TMA-18M capsule is on display at the Danish Museum of Science & Technology Archived 2019-06-08 at the Wayback Machine in Elsinore.