Station 10 as Soyuz crew arrives amid Baikonur launch pad crisis

Ten people are now onboard the International Space Station after the arrival of three new crew members on the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft. While back on Earth, damage to the Baikonur launch pad raises questions about Russia's ability to sustain future crewed missions in the immediate term and what this means for ISS operations as pressure builds to retire and eventually deorbit the station.

Soyuz MS-28 lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:27 a.m. EST on November 27, carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev on a fast-track rendezvous profile. The spacecraft docked to the station's Rassvet module a few hours later, with hatches opening at 10:16 a.m

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