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US-Russian crew of 3 blasts off to International Space Station in Russian Soyuz rocket

All three are scheduled to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost.

By: AP

November 27, 2025 03:29 PM IST First published on: Nov 27, 2025 at 03:29 PM IST
In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (Roscosmos space corporation, via AP)The Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship carrying NASA and Roscosmos cosmonauts to the International Space Station (Roscosmos space corporation, via AP)

A US-Russian crew of three launched Thursday to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket.

All three are scheduled to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost.

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was scheduled to dock at the station about three hours after the liftoff.

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