The country plans to send an empty Soyuz capsule to the ISS in February to replace the one that was slammed by a tiny meteoroid and began leaking coolant in December.
The replacement capsule will return back to Earth after it’s sent up on Feb. 20.The damaged capsule will be also sent back to Kazakhstan with cargo in March.“I will tell you, there is no immediate need for the crew to come home today, that all the systems are operating,” Montalbano said. “The Soyuz is not good for nominal re-entry … but in case of emergency, with extra risk, we are going to use this Soyuz.
The astronauts had been scheduled to return to Earth in March but will now remain at the space station for several more months, space officials said.On Dec. 15, a spacewalk by the two Russian cosmonauts was called off after flight controllers noticed a stream of white liquid leaking from the spacecraft.
Officials later said the hole was caused by a one-millimeter-wide meteorite soaring through the cosmos at roughly 15,000 mph.
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