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International astronauts are going to the space station
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who was the first woman to travel to space, will be joined by fellow astronauts Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata of Japan’s space agency JAXA, and Anna Kikina, a Roscomos cosmonaut, in NASA’s upcoming Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. This will be NASA’s third Crew-6 mission to the space station.
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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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The spacewalk was called off after a leak was discovered on the capsule
The planned spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station was aborted on Sunday after ground teams noticed a leak from a ship docked at the space station. The Soyuz MS-22 vehicle was found to be leaking coolant in December. The three astronauts currently stationed at the space station will be flown back…