Russia to launch mission to rescue stranded ISS crew after meteoroid strike

Space agency mounts rescue mission to bring home two cosmonauts and US astronaut marooned on ISS

US astronaut Frank Rubio with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin wave to relatives and friends before the launch of the Soyuz-2.1 rocket in Kazakhstan last September.US astronaut Frank Rubio with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin wave to relatives and friends before the launch of the Soyuz-2.1 rocket in Kazakhstan last September.Last modified on Wed 11 Jan 2023 12.

With the leak resulting in higher cabin temperatures, the MS-22 was deemed unfit, leaving only one operational “escape pod” docked on the ISS – a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. There are seven people onboard the space station, but the SpaceX capsule has only four seats. If a “particularly critical” situation arose on the ISS in the weeks before then, Roscosmos said, the possibility of using the damaged Soyuz MS-22 to rescue the crew would be considered.

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