7 Apr 2025

The crewed Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following a launch at 1:47 a.m. EDT on April 8 (10:47 a.m. Baikonur time) with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard.

After a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory to the station, the spacecraft will dock automatically to the station’s Prichal module at approximately 5:03 a.m. NASA’s live coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 4:15 a.m. on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms.

The trio will spend approximately eight months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Earth in December. This is the first flight for Kim and Zubritsky, and the third for Ryzhikov.

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The Soyuz MS-27 rocket with three crew members aboard lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan toward the International Space Station.