The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station
Russians to help Americans. This is a scenario that does not happen on Earth but in space. a The Russian Soyuz spacecraft Anchored all night from Saturday to Sunday at International Space Station In order to serve, next September, as a means of returning to Earth two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut, his first ship was damaged.
The rescue ship MS-23 took off Friday morning from Kazakhstanwith no one on board, and arrived at the space station after a journey of about two days, according to a live video broadcast from NASA.
American Frank Rubio, as well as Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petline, set off at the end of September 2022 aboard Soyuz MS-22. But in December, this ship suffered a spectacular leak during docking with the International Space Station, due to Moscow for a small meteor impact. So the Russian Space Agency decided that it could only be used in emergency situations, and chose to send the MS-23 spacecraft as an alternative.
I extended the assignment through September
The three crew members’ mission has been extended through September, and so they will be back aboard this replacement ship after spending nearly a year in space. The damaged MS-22 ship must be ejected from the International Space Station and returned to Earth empty, in advance of the end of next month.
In addition to the three crew members who came aboard the Soyuz, the International Space Station currently has four other passengers, who arrived by spacecraft from SpaceX The members of the expedition are called Crew-5. They are due to be joined next week by Crew-6, which includes two Americans, an Emirati and a Russian, and is scheduled to take off from Sunday night to Monday from Florida in the United States. After delivery for a few days, Crew-5 will descend to Earth.
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