"The landing of the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-28 transport manned spacecraft will take place on July 26 in Kazakhstan. The crew includes participants of the completed 74th long-term expedition to the ISS: Hero of Russia, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams," the state corporation said in a statement. After that, Soyuz MS-28 will go into autonomous flight, at about 12:32 a.m. Moscow time (09:32 a.m. GMT) it will turn on the engines for braking and descend from orbit. At a height of less than a meter to the ground, the Soyuz MS-28 will activate soft landing engines. The ISS-74 expedition and the TASS bureauThe Soyuz MS-28 manned transport spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 27, 2025 carrying Kud-Sverchkov, Mikayev, and Williams.