{"id":156678,"date":"2025-11-28T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156678\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:51:07","slug":"russian-cosmodrome-damaged-after-soyuz-launch-to-iss-dw-11-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/156678\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian cosmodrome damaged after Soyuz launch to ISS \u2013 DW \u2013 11\/27\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/soyuz\/t-64653171\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soyuz<\/a> spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, despite damage to the launch pad in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/kazakhstan\/t-38960532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kazakhstan<\/a> during liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s space agency Roscosmos said &#8220;damage to a number of elements of the launch pad was detected&#8221; after the mission launched earlier in the day from the\u00a0Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<p>It added that repairs would be made quickly, though some Russian space bloggers warned that the agency may be unable to conduct launches for some time at its only manned-mission site.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74932743\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74932743_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\" A Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft launches for an expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan November 27, 2025\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Some Russian space bloggers suggest the site in Kazakhstan was seriously damagedImage: Pavel Mikheyev\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Soyuz crew reaches ISS<\/p>\n<p>The Soyuz spacecraft arrived safely at the ISS, where Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, along with <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/nasa\/t-64526832\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> astronaut Chris Williams, are expected to spend eight months in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The trio joins NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman and Jonny Kim; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui; and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexei Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/space\/t-64606735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space<\/a> remains one of the few areas of cooperation between the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia\/t-19065060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>, despite strained relations over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74932783\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74932783_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev board the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft ahead of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS)\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>For Williams and Mikaev, it&#8217;s their first spaceflight. Kud-Sverchkov is on his second missionImage: Maxim Shipenkov\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:\u00a0Karl Sexton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut successfully docked with the International Space Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-156678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}