Happily, the Soyuz MS-27 space craft has just safely landed at Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan..

[Princess Turandot]

... bringing astronaut Jonny Kim, and two cosmonauts, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, back to Earth. They had been at the ISS for a 245 day mission, the 73rd such expedition to date.

A bit more pre-landing info here:
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/watch-3-astronauts-head-home-to-earth-from-the-international-space-station-tonight

[question everything]

1. Great news. Nice to know that Musk is not the only way to connect

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. There was a problem at the Russian launch site last time

Russia Faces Space Mission Crisis After Severe Soyuz Launch Pad Accident

On November 27th, Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome experienced a severe accident that has suspended Russia's ability to launch payloads and crews to space.

Shortly after the Soyuz-MS28 mission launched at 09:27:57 UTC (4:27:57 am EST; 1:27:57 am PST) from Site 31/6 at the launch center, drone footage showed that the 8U216 mobile maintenance cabin was lying upside down in the flame trench.
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While other launch facilities exist in Russia, such as the Plesetsk Cosmodrome near Archangel (northern Russia), the Vostochny Cosmodrome in far-eastern Russia, or Gagarin's Start at Baikonur, they are either incapable of reaching the ISS, unable to fulfill crew-launch capability, or unable to conduct launches at all.

As a result, Russia is temporarily unable to launch either crews or payloads using Soyuz and Progress spacecraft (respectively) to the ISS for the time being.

https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-faces-space-mission-crisis-after-severe-soyuz-launch-pad-accident

(The manned Soyuz spacecraft being launched then was fine, and got to the ISS OK)

There are cargo capsules from the Japanese and Northrop Grumman, but with the Boeing Starliner problems the last time it launched, it does look like Spacex's Dragon is the only manned craft currently capable of launching.