NASA and Russia finally cement a plan to retrieve stranded astronauts on the ISS

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rescue plan has taken shape to bring home the two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut stranded on the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA and Russia finally cement a plan to retrieve stranded astronauts on the ISS
NASA and Russia finally cement a plan to retrieve stranded astronauts on the ISS© Provided by Inverse

Last month, a Russian Soyuz MS-22 crew capsule docked at the ISS sprung a massive leak. The material was liquid coolant, and with so much lost to space, NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos had to determine if the trio that rode the MS-22 into space could safely return to Earth come March, at the end of their mission. But they found that the vehicle was unsafe for a crew to ride back home because the thermal protection system was now compromised.

Roscosmos will launch an empty Soyuz MS-23 in February to retrieve NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. “The Soyuz MS-22 will be replaced by the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft that will launch to the space station without a crew on Monday, Feb. 20,” NASA press officials wrote Wednesday on the agency’s Space Station blog.

“We are going to return back Soyuz [MS-22] with no crew … we are sending new Soyuz with empty seats to be able to rescue crew and return them back in nominal situation,” Sergei Krikalev, executive director of the Roscosmos Human Space Flight Programs, told reporters at a joint teleconference with NASA on Wednesday.

The trio will not board next month when the spacecraft arrives. They are now set to spend extra months on the ISS as part of the recovery plan.

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