Spaceflight Daily Report, Sunday 26th July 2026

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Departure of Soyuz MS-28

After a 240-day stay, Soyuz MS-28 undocked from the nadir docking port of the Rassvet module of the International Space Station at 0702 UTC. It was carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, and American astronaut Chris Williams. The spacecraft departed the station and re-entered the atmosphere. At 1027 UTC the three crew safely touched down in Kazakhstan. This concluded Kud-Sverchkov's second spaceflight, bringing him up to a total of 426 days in space. It was Mikaev and Williams' first spaceflight, bringing each of them up to 241 days in space. There are now ten people in space; three Russians, three Americans, and one French aboard the International Space Station, and three Chinese aboard the Tiangong space station. [Source: NASA]