The crewed Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is safely in orbit and headed for the Worldwide Area 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 robotically with the station’s Rassvet module at roughly 7:38 a.m. NASA’s stay protection of rendezvous and docking will start at 6:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and extra. Learn to watch NASA content material via quite a lot of platforms, together with social media.
The trio will spend roughly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory earlier than returning to Earth in summer time 2026. That is the primary flight for Williams and Mikaev, and the second for Kud-Sverchkov
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