At 7:34 a.m. EST, the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft docked with the Worldwide House Station’s Rassvet module. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev launched at 4:27 a.m. (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Hatch opening is scheduled for 10:10 a.m. NASA’s reside hatch-opening protection will start at 9:50 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and extra. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by way of quite a lot of platforms, together with social media.
As soon as aboard, the trio will be part of Expedition 73, together with NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Jonny Kim, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and Oleg Platonov. The newly arrived crew members will spend roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory, returning to Earth in summer season 2026.
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