A Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut lifted off for an eight-month stay on the International Space Station — and that was just one of the three crewmates on Soyuz MS-27.

The mission of the latest Soyuz launch is to carry out 50 scientific experiments in space, Roscosmos said, before returning to Earth on December 9. Docking confirmed: the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft ...