Overview
- NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev are scheduled to launch on Soyuz MS-28 at 4:27 a.m. ET on Nov. 27 for an eight-month mission.
- The spacecraft is planned to dock with the ISS after two orbits to the Rassvet module roughly three hours after liftoff, with coverage streaming on NASA platforms.
- Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL (NG-23) was unberthed and secured on Canadarm2 through Dec. 1 to provide physical clearance for the Soyuz arrival under joint NASA–Roscosmos–Northrop operations.
- Cygnus is slated to be reattached Dec. 1, remain berthed at least into March 2026, and later perform a destructive re-entry to dispose of station trash.
- Station crews oversaw the vehicle move and continued research and upkeep, including CIPHER exercise sessions, cryogenic fluid studies, HTV-X1 cargo transfers, Astrobee training, waste system repairs, and Russian countermeasure and sensor experiments.