Soyuz MS-28 to launch NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts to ISS on Thanksgiving

Soyuz MS-28 will launch one NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts from Baikonur at 4:27 a.m. ET on Nov. 27, traveling to the International Space Station on a roughly three-hour fast rendezvous. They'll join Expedition 73 for an approximately eight-month microgravity research mission.

Discovered 2025-11-26T10:03:41.911330-08:00 | 2025-11-26T10:03:41.911330-08:00

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  • Expands Expedition 73 from seven to ten crew members, adding three personnel for an ~eight-month microgravity research campaign and affecting station resource allocation and experiment schedules.
  • The roughly three-hour Soyuz fast rendezvous enables rapid crew integration and handover of experiments; this launch follows the ongoing cadence of cargo and crew traffic such as Northrop Grumman's NG-23 Cygnus launch to the ISS (https://hype.aero/?story=656784c7-16ed-46c0-868c-fd63f6507732).
  • Reinforces continued international long-duration operations in low Earth orbit, a pattern also seen in China's multi-month Tiangong missions (https://hype.aero/?story=3a94c5ec-78e4-4fa4-8632-4cc3fd2a7658).

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