Russia has launched a rescue ship for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the ISS.
of the replacement Soyuz, looking for any manufacturing defects. No issues were found, and the agency proceeded with Friday’s predawn launch from Kazakhstan of the capsule with bundles of supplies strapped into the three seats.
The damaged Soyuz will return to Earth with no one aboard by the end of March, so engineers can examine it. The damaged supply ship was filled with trash and cut loose over the weekend, burning up in the atmosphere as originally planned.
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