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Russia is going to provide stranded space station crew members with transportation home
Russian space agency Roscosmos on Saturday said it had delayed the launch of a new spaceship after a cargo ship broke down on Saturday. The launch of an uncrewed capsule was supposed to take place on Monday and bring astronauts and two cosmonauts back to Earth. The spacecraft will carry around 948 pounds of cargo…
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Russia launches replacements for astronauts after a leak
Russia and NASA on Thursday said they’ve decided to delay the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft due to a coolant leak in its cooling loop on the International Space Station. This comes after NASA found a similar leak in a Progress spacecraft that docked with the space station on February 11. Roscosmos is planned to…
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Russia is planning to take stranded space station crew members home
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has decided to delay the launch of a spacecraft meant to replace one that was not safe enough to transport astronauts. Roscosmos was aiming to launch the MS-23 replacement capsule this month and return cosmonauts Alexey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio home. The planned rescue mission was…