Soyuz MS-29

Soyuz MS-29 lifts off from pad 31/6 at Baikonur on 14 July 2026 at 14:43 UTC, carrying three crew members for a six-month rotation aboard the Station. Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina fly in the commander and flight-engineer seats. NASA astronaut Anil Menon takes the right-hand seat under the long-running seat-swap arrangement between the two agencies. The three-hour rendezvous puts them at the Rassvet docking port the same evening.

Anna Kikina is on her second flight. Her first was the 2022 Crew-5 mission with SpaceX — the first Russian to fly aboard a Crew Dragon — and she returns now to the Station on the vehicle her country has been launching to it since the year 2000. Dubrov, by contrast, flew the famously long expedition that ran 355 days in 2021 to make room for a film crew on the Russian side. Menon’s first flight; he is a physician, formerly the flight surgeon for SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon test.