Russian Soyuz MS-28 Crew Spacecraft Preflight: Part 1 | International Space Station

Russian Soyuz MS-28 Crew Spacecraft Preflight: Part 1 | International Space Station

The Russian Soyuz MS-28 crew vehicle shown being integrated with its (very colorful) Roscosmos Soyuz 2.1a rocket.

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, at Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.

The Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) is set for launch aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 27, 2025, for an eight-month mission as part of Expeditions 73/74. Crew members are Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Russia), Sergey Mikayev (Russia) and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams (United States) on his first flight. The launch is scheduled for no earlier than November 27, 2025, 09:27 UTC. On the same day at 12:38 it will dock to the ISS.

NASA astronaut Christopher Williams Biography
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-christopher-l-williams/

Selected as a candidate in 2021, Williams graduated with the 23rd astronaut class in 2024. He began training for his first space station flight assignment immediately after completing initial astronaut candidate training.

Williams was born in New York City, and considers Potomac, Maryland, his hometown. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Stanford University in California and a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where his research focused on astrophysics. Williams completed medical physics residency training at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He was working as a clinical physicist and researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston when he was selected as an astronaut candidate.

Follow Expedition 73:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)
JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov
NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits Roscosmos/NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Dates: Nov. 23-24, 2025

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