The crew of the damaged Soyuz MS-22 will spend several extra months in space and return to Earth in a replacement ship.
Russian engineers have concluded a Soyuz space station crew ferry ship that was damaged last month by a presumed micrometeoroid impact cannot be used to safely bring two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut back to Earth in late March as planned, officials said Wednesday.
"What will be exact day to send replacements for them is not decided yet, but it's going to be a several months' longer mission," he said in English during a teleconference in Moscow. The Soyuz MS-23 crew ferry ship undergoing accelerated processing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to ready the spacecraft for launch to the International Space Station on February 20 to replace the damaged MS-22 vehicle."The crews are prepared to stay until if that's the case," he said from Moscow."The crews are excited to be in space, excited to do the research that we do on orbit. So they are ready to go with whatever decision we give them.
The spacewalk was called off as television cameras on the station showed a torrent of icy coolant streaming away into space over the next several hours. Temperatures in the spacecraft initially remained at"acceptable levels," the Russians said, and all the ship's other systems appeared to be working normally.
NASA and Russian space station managers are still assessing options for what they might do if an evacuation-level emergency develops aboard the space station between now and when the replacement Soyuz arrives.
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