NASA astronaut launches on Russian Soyuz to ISS

NASA’s Christopher Williams launched early Thursday aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-28/74S with commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergey Mikaev from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on a Thanksgiving flight to the International Space Station. The crew lifted off at 4:27 a.m. ET on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket, with an automated two‑orbit rendezvous targeting a 7:38 a.m. ET docking to the station’s Rassvet module; the mission will rotate in for the Soyuz MS‑27 trio set to return Dec. 9.