The SpaceX capsule is equipped to handle meteoroid strikes.
However, observers were concerned about what would happen in the event of an emergency that required the ISS to be evacuated between now and the arrival of the replacement Soyuz. Usually, crew members would evacuate in the vehicles in which they had traveled to the station, but with the Soyuz leak, it isn’t certain if the vehicle would be safe for a return journey.
But in the case of an emergency evacuation, the plan is for NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to travel in the SpaceX Crew Dragon along with theand for Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin to travel in the Soyuz that experienced the leak. The issue is that, without its coolant, the Soyuz could overheat as it travels back through Earth’s atmosphere
“In the early days of laying out the Crew Dragon interior, we actually laid out the interior to accommodate up to seven individuals, and that was later adjusted to convert three of those seats to spaces that could be used as cargo storage,” said Sarah Walker, director, Dragon mission management at SpaceX.
“Dragon has plenty of margin, even with the extra crew member, with respect to onboard life support.”
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