Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft suffered damage at the International Space Station in December when a leak caused it to lose a large amount of coolant.
Related It’s now been decided that if there’s a call to evacuate the ISS before the replacement Soyuz arrives, Rubio will enter SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, which brought the four Crew-5 astronauts to the ISS in October, while Prokopyev and Petelin will enter the damaged Soyuz spacecraft. But ISS program manager Joel Montalbano said at a recent press conference that taking Rubio out of the Soyuz would remove one third of the human heat load, easing the stress on the spacecraft.