Russia has launched a rescue ship for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station.
Too risky to bring astronauts back on ship punctured by micrometeorite in December, officials saidA new, empty Soyuz MS-23 capsule blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Friday. It's a rescue ship for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride sprang a leak at the International Space Station.The capsule leak in December was blamed on a micrometeorite that punctured an external radiator, draining it of coolant.
Given the urgent need for this capsule, two top NASA officials travelled from the U.S. to observe the launch in person. To everyone's relief, the capsule safely reached orbit nine minutes after liftoff — "a perfect ride to orbit," NASA Mission Control's Rob Navias reported from Houston.Officials had determined it was too risky to bring NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin back in their damaged Soyuz next month as originally planned.
From left: NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, are currently on the space station. They blasted off in September, when this photo was taken.
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