A last-minute mission has been organized to rescue three astronauts stuck in orbit on the International Space Station. The plan is being put together by Russia, which announced that it would be speeding up its scheduled rocket launch to aid the astronauts and bring them back to Earth.
The crew, made up of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Peteli, and US astronaut Francisco Rubio, was stranded after their capsule, the Soyuz MS-22, sprang a leak last month.
The Guardian reports that the leak was caused by a micrometeoroid that perforated the docked ship. While the piece of rock was small, it traveled fast and caused great harm to the capsule. The accident resulted in radiator coolant spreading into space and the astronauts having to abort their spacewalk.
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