Russia has launched a new capsule to replace a faulty one that left 3 crew members at the International Space Station without a ride home
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Liftoff of the capsule, called the Soyuz MS-23, took place out of Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 7:24 p.m. ET, which is 5:24 a.m. Friday local time.
quickly worked to establish plans to send a replacement vehicle. Roscosmos officials said they had determined that the leak resulted from a small hole caused by an impact with a micrometeoroid. Plans to launch the rescue vehicle, however, were drawn into question when a Russian cargo ship, called Progress, experienced a similar coolant leak after docking with the space station on February 11.
astronaut Loral O’Hara were expected to launch to the space station on March 16 aboard MS-23. Instead, Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio’s time will be extended on the space station until they can return to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-23 later this year. That return could happen in September, according to a report from Russia state-run media outlet TASS. If that timeline holds, the three crewmates will have extended their expected six-month stay in space to about one year.
and SpaceX will launch their Crew-6 mission. Expected to lift off early Monday morning, Crew-6 will carry
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