astronaut who were due to return to Earth in March will now stay on the ISS until September. Russia sent a back-up capsule - the MS-23 - to the ISS last month and decided to bring the damaged MS-22 back to Earth without a crew. space agency NASA to rearrange their schedules and postpone space walks. The leaks prompted Roscosmos and the U.S.
Images captured from the exterior of the ISS showed coolant fluid spewing into space, while Roscosmos said temperatures at one point rose to 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) inside the capsule. The landing was broadcast online by the Russian space agency Roscosmos.Ī significant coolant leak was discovered in the capsule last December - caused by a 0.8-millimetre hole in its outer skin.Ī tiny meteorite is likely to have pierced the structure while it was docked, experts say. The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday afternoon, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia's space launches. March 28 (Reuters) - A damaged Russian Soyuz MS-22 capsule landed back on Earth on Tuesday, three months after coolant began leaking from the craft while it was docked at the International Space Station (ISS).
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