Part of the damaged plating of the Soyuz spacecraft will be delivered to Earth

Interfax reports this with reference to the executive director for the Roscosmos manned program, Sergei Krikalev.

“With the crew that will return. We have no other options. When Prokopiev returns, he will return, ”he said, answering the relevant question.

According to the agency, experts expect fragments of the plating of the domestic compartment of the Soyuz, which, after undocking from the ISS, before entering the atmosphere will detach from the descent vehicle and burn, which will not allow to study the damaged elements.

A source earlier said that Russian cosmonauts will inspect the Soyuz MS-09 outside in December.

In early October, it became known that a dust filter from the Soyuz, in which a hole was discovered, was returned to Earth.

The launch of the new crew to the ISS is scheduled for December 3.