A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has docked at the International Space Station , ready to take astronauts back to Earth and act as a replacement for another Soyuz that sprang a leak last year. The three affected crew members, NASA’s Frank Rubio and Roscosmos’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, will now travel home in this replacement spacecraft later in the year.
The three crewmembers had originally traveled to the ISS in the Soyuz MS-22 in September 2022 without incident. But rather than traveling home in the same vehicle as planned, it was decided to send a replacement Soyuz for them to use instead. It was this replacement Soyuz, named MS-23, which arrived at the space station yesterday, Saturday February 25.
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