The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical physicist at Harvard Medical School.

A U.S.-Russian crew of three launched Thursday to the International Space Station. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-28 carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian crewmates,

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev of Roscosmos and Chris Williams of NASA — launched for and arrived at the ISS on Nov. 27, 2025, Thanksgiving Day.

A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board, a live stream of the launch showed.

A trio of astronauts and cosmonauts will celebrate Thanksgiving by heading to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will travel to the ISS to join the Expedition 73 crew.

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a successful launch Thursday. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off at 2:27 p.m. (9:27 a.

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a successful launch Thursday.

A Soyuz rocket carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev lifted off on schedule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.The spacecraft was bound for the International Space Station.