Russia has launched an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft on a deliverance charge to return two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose trip back to Earth has been hampered after their original space vehicle was damaged by a mini meteorite while situated at the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Space Agency delayed the launch of the relief Soyuz, looking for any manufacturing blights.
No issues were set up, and the agency progressed with Friday’s predawn launch from Kazakhstan of the capsule with packets of inventories strapped into the three seats. Given the critical need for this capsule, two top NASA officers travelled from the US to observe the launch in person. To everyone’s relief, the capsule safely reached route nine twinkles after takeoff, a perfect lift to route, NASA Mission Control’s Rob Navias reported from Houston.
Officers had determined it was too perilous to bring NASA’s Frank Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin back in their damaged Soyuz coming month as firstly planned. The Soyuz MS- 23 vessel blasted off successfully from the Russian- operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, live videotape broadcast by ISS mate NASA showed. The capsule leak in December was criticised on a micrometeorite that punctured an external radiator, draining it of coolant. The same thing appeared to be again before this month, this time on a docked Russian weight boat. Camera views showed a small hole in each spacecraft.
The Russian Space Agency delayed the launch of the relief Soyuz, looking for any manufacturing blights. No issues were set up, and the agency progressed with Friday’s predawn launch from Kazakhstan of the capsule with packets of inventories strapped into the three seats. SpaceX’s William Gerstenmaier said the four astronauts returning to Earth in a few weeks’ time have audited the Dragon capsule that will carry them home and it all checked out OK .
