[…] Frank Rubio looks set to become the first U.S. astronaut to log more than a year continuously in space, following Wednesday’s announcement by NASA and Roscosmos that the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft—which sustained damage, likely from a micrometeoroid impact, last month—is not acceptable for a nominal return of crew back to Earth and will be replaced. Soyuz MS-23 will launch uncrewed from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on 20 February, providing return capability for Rubio and his Russian crewmates Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, who have been in orbit since last September. […]
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