Trio Aboard Soyuz Launches to Station for Docking Today
The crewed Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is safely in orbit and headed for the International Space Station, following a launch at 4:27 a.m. EST (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev aboard.
After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will dock automatically with the station’s Rassvet module at approximately 7:38 a.m. NASA’s live coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 6:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
The trio will spend approximately eight months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Earth in summer 2026. This is the first flight for Williams and Mikaev, and the second for Kud-Sverchkov
Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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