MOSCOW -- A U.S.-Russian unit of 3 began a ngo to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft pursuing a succesful motorboat Thursday.
A Soyuz booster rocket lifted disconnected astatine 2:27 p.m. (9:27 a.m. GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur motorboat installation successful Kazakhstan to enactment the Soyuz MS-28 into orbit.
The spacecraft carried NASA astronaut Chris Williams and 2 Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov. They were scheduled to dock astatine the presumption astir 3 hours aft liftoff.
All 3 are expected to walk astir 8 months astatine the orbiting outpost. NASA said this is the archetypal spaceflight for Williams, a physicist, and Mikaev, a subject pilot. This is the 2nd formation for Kud-Sverchkov.
At the International Space Station, the trio volition articulation NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman and Jonny Kim, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexei Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov.
Williams volition behaviour technological probe and exertion demonstrations astatine the orbiting outpost aimed astatine advancing quality abstraction exploration and benefiting beingness connected Earth, NASA said.
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