Tag: Russia Space rescue

Russia will launch a rescue spacecraft to the International Space Station next month in order to retrieve three crew members whose initial capsule was destroyed by a meteorite. Last month, the docked Soyuz MS-22 sprung a significant leak, spilling radiator coolant into orbit and forcing two cosmonauts to abort a scheduled spacewalk. Russia Space Agency While Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, stated that the attack posed no immediate threat to the crew of the space station, it did raise questions about the crew's ability to return to Earth in an emergency. Due to the...