![]() ![]() Those four arrived at the space station March 3 via the SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon spacecraft. The relocation will allow the Poisk module to be used as an airlock without blocking emergency crew access to the Soyuz spacecraft, which doubles as a lifeboat for the trio.Īlso aboard the orbiting laboratory are NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio are expected to board that vehicle and manually relocate it to the Earth-facing Prichal module on April 6. Soyuz MS-23 launched in an uncrewed mode to the ISS and docked to the space-facing Posik module on Feb. That would make their total time in space roughly 371 days - the longest single stay aboard the International Space Station to date. The cosmonaut-astronaut trio is expected to return Sept. Instead, Roscosmos packed the return capsule with 481 pounds (218 kilograms) of cargo. The Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak in December 2022. Combine that with the G-loads of reentry and any humidity inside the vehicle, and it would have been a very uncomfortable ride for a person, to say the least. Roscosmos estimated the internal temperature would probably have reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). But because of the incident late last year, the trio will remain in orbit likely until September and return in the undamaged Soyuz MS-23.Īfter the leak, the spacecraft was not able to keep the interior of the capsule cool enough for a safe return. ![]() Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, were supposed to return in Soyuz MS-22 after six months in space. 14, 2022, which Russia says was caused by a micrometeoroid impact, that vehicle was replaced with Soyuz MS-23 in February. Because of an external coolant line leak Dec. EDT March 28, 2023, less than two hours after undocking from the space station without the crew it launched with back in September. The spacecraft parachuted down to the Kazakh Steppe, landing at 7:46 a.m. Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which was struck by a micrometeoroid late last year, autonomously landed in Kazakhstan after a 187-day stay at the International Space Station. ![]() That trio will now remain in space until September 2023. A coolant leak caused by a micrometeoroid in December prompted Roscosmos to replace the vehicle with Soyuz MS-23 for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio. Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft undocked without its crew to land autonomously. ![]()
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