The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is mounted on a launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Monday. Russia's Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Denmark's astronaut Andreas Mogensen, is scheduled to blast off to the ISS on Wednesday. Photo: AFP