NASA Considers SpaceX Astronaut Rescue in Wake of Soyuz Leak Written 3 January 2023
A Soyuz spacecraft is docked to the nadir port of the ISS. | Credit: NASA
SPACE reported that NASA “might use a SpaceX spacecraft to rescue three space station crew members depending on a leaky Soyuz to get home, a report suggests.” The Soyuz spacecraft “on the International Space Station suffered a severe coolant leak on Dec. 15 and a decision about whether it is safe to send the crew back to Earth on it will come in January, Russia has said.” If a rescue “Soyuz craft is needed[,] it could only come in February, two or three weeks before the normal changeover in March.” NASA apparently is “considering using SpaceX, the only company currently flying astronauts into space from American soil, as a backup if these options don’t work out.”
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