Russia to launch rescue mission for stranded astronauts on International Space Station

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Russia will send a rescue pod to the International Space Station next month, to rescue three stranded crew members after a micrometeoroid left a hole in their original vessel last month.

Representatives from Russia's Roscosmos and NASA said the plan was to move up a launch that was scheduled for March, to Feb. 20 instead. The vessel will be empty when it goes up. Once the replacement is docked, the damaged Soyuz MS-22 capsule will return to the Earth.“This is the next Soyuz that was scheduled to fly in March,” said Joel Montalbano, the space station program manager at NASA, during a news conference. “It’ll just fly a little earlier.

The strike was caused by a micrometeoroid that caused a hole in the craft's radiator, which could cause the spacecraft to overheat during its return. The hole caused radiator coolant to leak into space, making it too difficult to repair in space.

 

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