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The article is written in bizarre fashion.

For about 10 years after the Shuttle program ended, Soyuz was the only launch vehicle capable of carrying crew to and from the ISS. The US manned space program was 100% reliant on Soyuz.

Now a Soyuz capsule has a leak, apparently from a meteoroid strike associated with the Geminid shower, according to Space.com.

RosCosmos will decide by the end of December whether or not a replacement Soyuz need be launched to ferry two cosmonauts and one US astronaut back to Earth adding 45 days to the schedule, or whether the damaged Soyuz is adequately safe to perform the descent on present schedule. There is no evidence of any other damage than loss of coolant.

SpaceX was not scheduled to perform this ferry task and still is not.


10 posted on 12/28/2022 5:12:21 PM PST by Owen
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Watch - Space x will retrofit a vehicle to get them home.

They’ll accuse Elon of being a Russian conspirator.


12 posted on 12/28/2022 5:19:55 PM PST by CTyank
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