U.S. & Russian Expedition 74 & Soyuz MS-28 Crew | International Space Station
Soyuz MS-28 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev of Russia pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
NASA astronaut and Soyuz MS-28 Mission Specialist Chris Williams poses for a portrait in his Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and Soyuz MS-28 Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Russia poses for a portrait in his Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and Soyuz MS-28 Flight Engineer Sergey Mikaev of Russia poses for a portrait in his Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
Expedition 74 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev of Russia pose for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Chris Williams poses for a portrait in his flight suit at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Russia poses for a portrait in his flight suit at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Sergey Mikaev of Russia poses for a portrait in his flight suit at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, targeted to launch Nov. 27, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, will carry Williams on his first flight, as well as Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev of Roscosmos, to the space station for an eight-month mission as part of Expeditions 73/74.
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.
The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology, and human innovation enabling research not possible on Earth. For nearly 25 years, NASA has supported a continuous U.S. human presence aboard the orbiting laboratory, where astronauts have learned to live and work in space for extended periods of time. The space station is a "springboard for developing a low Earth economy" and NASA’s next great leaps in human exploration at the Moon under the Artemis campaign and Mars.
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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 Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC)/NASA's Johnson Space Center
Image Dates: Dec. 12, 2024-Sept. 30, 2025
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