Allegedly, Russia is considering whether or not it is required to send up a rescue mission to the ISS to recover astronauts if Soyuz is too badly damaged.
Sergei Krikalev, head of human spaceflight initiatives at Russia's Roscosmos, informed reporters that the damage was being evaluated duringThe exact method of returning the spacecraft's crew to Earth is still in the air. Options include sending another Soyuz to fetch them or, perhaps less likely, sending them back in the leaky capsule without most of their coolant.
“The temperature has stabilized after we brought air ducts there from the Russian segment and are maintaining the temperature regime by ventilators,” he added.In such a scenario, the crewless spacecraft would return empty and be replaced by the other Soyuz craft.NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev were transported to the ISS by MS-22 in September this year.
According to Montalbano, it's still unknown what caused the damage. The hull was punctured from a different angle. Therefore it does not appear that the Geminid meteor shower, an annual phenomenon, was to blame.
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