On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), a Russian Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Everything seemed to go well. After all, the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying that trio — NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev — docked with the orbiting lab safely that same day as planned.
