Russia Launches Rescue ‘Soyuz Spacecraft’ to the Space Station

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: February 27 2023

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Russia launched an unmanned rescue ship for a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts who were stranded in space after their spacecraft sprang a leak while parked at the International Space Station.
The Soyuz MS23 capsule was launched in automatic mode and it will bring back the astronomers safely.
Soyuz MS-23 launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz MS-23 will be the return vehicle for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, all of whom traveled to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-22 capsule in September.