Expedition 46 was a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that began in November 2015 and ended in March 2016. It was the 46th expedition to the ISS, and was comprised of six crew members from NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. The expedition was launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, and the crew members spent approximately four months living and working on the ISS. During their time on the station, the crew members conducted a variety of scientific experiments, performed maintenance and repair work, and welcomed several visiting spacecraft, including the SpaceX Dragon and Orbital ATK Cygnus. The crew of Expedition 46 included NASA astronauts Scott Kelly, Tim Kopra, and Timothy Peake, Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Sergei Volkov, and Yuri Malenchenko, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.
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