{"id":58478,"date":"2025-11-27T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-astronaut-joins-russian-cosmonauts-for-thanksgiving-day-ride-to-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:31:40","slug":"nasa-astronaut-joins-russian-cosmonauts-for-thanksgiving-day-ride-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-astronaut-joins-russian-cosmonauts-for-thanksgiving-day-ride-to-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts for Thanksgiving Day ride to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>With commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the controls of the Soyuz MS-28\/74S spacecraft, flanked on his left by flight engineer Sergey Mikayev and on the right by Williams, the crew&#8217;s Soyuz 2.1a booster roared to life at 4:27 a.m. Eastern and smoothly climbed away from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Nine minutes and 45 seconds later, the Soyuz spacecraft was released from the booster&#8217;s upper stage, its two solar wings unfolded and the crew set off in pursuit of the space station. If all goes well, the automated two-orbit rendezvous will end with a docking at the lab&#8217;s Earth-facing Rassvet module at 7:38 a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/0eaf15eb-e793-4c94-b16c-c9228e5f47af\/thumbnail\/620x349\/8c28e540c7fd3ff3e0062ea937ab5ef3\/112725-launch1.jpg#\" alt=\"112725-launch1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/0eaf15eb-e793-4c94-b16c-c9228e5f47af\/thumbnail\/620x349\/8c28e540c7fd3ff3e0062ea937ab5ef3\/112725-launch1.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/0eaf15eb-e793-4c94-b16c-c9228e5f47af\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/89c259975c53bb3f3e929c7a6dfcc30f\/112725-launch1.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a flight to the International Space Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Roscosmos\/NASA<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Williams, a former volunteer fire fighter and emergency medical technician who went on to earn a Ph.D. in astrophysics from MIT, was a board-certified medical physicist at Harvard Medical School when he was selected to join NASA&#8217;s astronaut corps in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He and flight engineer Mikayev were making their first space flight on Thursday, while Kud-Sverchkov is a seasoned veteran who logged 185 days aboard the space station in 2020-2021.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/a2c8c736-4489-4d38-af07-fc7f3fee636f\/thumbnail\/620x349\/6191f4a1f6bbab9d935c633edf45b38d\/112725-launch2.jpg#\" alt=\"112725-launch2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/a2c8c736-4489-4d38-af07-fc7f3fee636f\/thumbnail\/620x349\/6191f4a1f6bbab9d935c633edf45b38d\/112725-launch2.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/a2c8c736-4489-4d38-af07-fc7f3fee636f\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/940719f363901e01898814cd994e11ab\/112725-launch2.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Roscosmos\/NASA<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really great crew,&#8221; Williams said in a NASA interview. &#8220;Sergey and Sergey are both just absolutely wonderful people, really kind, super interested, super intellectually curious, which is really fun. Had a lot of really, really great discussions, just talking and talking about things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been been wonderful to both spend some time with them over in Star City, and also to be able to spend some time with them in Houston through our training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/d06d73e9-cb03-46f9-809e-e363cbfe0718\/thumbnail\/620x413\/4014aa2e0ffab35350f0e7cbd081fad1\/112725-crew-portrait.jpg#\" alt=\"112725-crew-portrait.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/d06d73e9-cb03-46f9-809e-e363cbfe0718\/thumbnail\/620x413\/4014aa2e0ffab35350f0e7cbd081fad1\/112725-crew-portrait.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/d06d73e9-cb03-46f9-809e-e363cbfe0718\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/d3043abde68741dcc0fcfa0cc6d8ac96\/112725-crew-portrait.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Soyuz MS-28\/74S crew. Left to right: NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergey Mikayev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NASA<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Soyuz MS-28 crew is replacing Soyuz MS-27\/73S commander Sergey Ryzhikov, flight engineer Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, who were launched to the space station last April. They plan to return to Earth on Dec. 9 to wrap up their eight-month stay on the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Also on hand to welcome Williams and his crewmates aboard the station: NASA Crew 11 commander Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. They launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last August and plan to come home in February or March, after their replacements \u2014 Crew 12 \u2014 arrive. <\/p>\n<p>All 11 station fliers planned to gather for a traditional welcome aboard video call to mission managers and family back in Moscow before a safety briefing and the start of familiarization with the space station&#8217;s complex systems.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, an Eagle Scout with a private pilot&#8217;s license, is a standout among super achievers.<\/p>\n<p>After  graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in  physics, he was doing radio astronomy research on the way to a  Ph.D. and, &#8220;down the street from my house, there was a volunteer fire  department. And I was like, oh, that sounds like something that could be  kind of like fun and interesting to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I started  volunteering. Got trained as an EMT and a firefighter, and started just  sort of doing that on a volunteer basis. And I found that I really liked  it. I got a lot of satisfaction out of knowing that &#8230; at the end of  the shift, I would have really made a very direct and immediate positive  impact on somebody&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He kept that up throughout graduate  school. Then, as he was winding up his doctorate in astrophysics,  Williams said he ran into a doctor he knew at a party who told him there  was &#8220;a big need for physicists in medicine, in particular, in radiation  oncology, where we use radiation to treat cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/95cedee4-8a9f-405d-b29e-668659db0892\/thumbnail\/620x349\/646d58af516c93cc64ea4d75843e4951\/112725-iss-crew.jpg#\" alt=\"112725-iss-crew.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/95cedee4-8a9f-405d-b29e-668659db0892\/thumbnail\/620x349\/646d58af516c93cc64ea4d75843e4951\/112725-iss-crew.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/27\/95cedee4-8a9f-405d-b29e-668659db0892\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/6f6ebe8388fa21023a8ee41cddf8f857\/112725-iss-crew.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Soyuz MS-28 crew will be welcomed aboard the space station by the lab&#8217;s current seven-member crew. Back row, left to right: Crew 11 cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Soyuz MS-27 astronaut Jonny Kim, Soyuz MS-27 commander Sergey Ryzhikov, Soyuz MS-27 flight engineer Alexey Zubritsky and Japanese Crew 11 astronaut Kimiya Yui; Front row, left to right: Crew 11 flight engineer Mike Fincke and Crew 11 commander Zena Cardman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NASA<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He talked with a few other people, including one who had been an astronomer before switching to medical physics, and &#8220;I was struck by how much of what I knew and had learned as an astronomer would actually be useful and apply very directly to medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the math behind (medical) imaging is the exact same math that actually you use in a radio telescope to make an image,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;It was kind of neat to see that image processing techniques that I&#8217;d used as (a radio astronomer) actually carried over pretty directly into medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his selection as an astronaut, Williams was on the staff at Harvard Medical School as a clinical physicist and researcher. He is the second member of the 2021 class of astronauts to fly in space, getting assigned to the Soyuz MS-28 mission shortly after finishing astronaut candidate training.<\/p>\n<p>He said the training for launch on a Russian spacecraft was difficult, primarily because of the travel required. He credited his wife, Aubrey, with keeping the family&#8217;s life on an even keel throughout.<\/p>\n<p>As for what he looks forward to during his eight-month stay in space, Williams repeated a familiar theme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot of different goals, but I think the biggest one, and the thing I&#8217;m most excited about, is to truly be able to put my training into practice and to do a really good job to push forward the science and research that we&#8217;re doing on on the space station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly important. 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