'We're not calling it a rescue Soyuz,' NASA says.
"We're not calling this a rescue Soyuz," Joel Montalbano, NASA's space station program manager, told reporters Wednesday."I'm calling it a replacement Soyuz. This is the next Soyuz that was scheduled to fly in March. It will just fly a little early."
without a return ship since their MS-22 Soyuz was damaged last month. It's an unprecedented scenario, officials have said. The coolant leak on Dec. 14, which was captured in dramatic video by station cameras, meant the Soyuz MS-22 is unable to keep its crew capsule and systems cool enough for safe operation.
"The awesome thing about our crews is they're willing to help wherever we ask." Montalbano said."They're prepared to stay until the September launch date if that's the case. If they go earlier, and that launch date moves up earlier, then they're prepared to come home earlier.Meanwhile, NASA is weighing potential delays to its Crew-6 astronaut launch on a SpaceX Dragon capsule androcket, currently targeting Feb. 16.
While the stricken Soyuz MS-22 capsule is unfit to carry a human crew, it will still be guided to a nominal landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan, Krikalev said. That landing will occur several weeks after the replacement Soyuz MS-23 arrives at the station, since Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin must transfer their custom seat liners, Sokol entry suits and other gear to the new ship.
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