Regarding the trouble that the coolant leaked into outer space last month from the Russian spacecraft "Soyuz" docked to the ISS = International Space Station, NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Russia's Roscosmos leaked. He announced that the spacecraft will return to Earth unmanned and a replacement spacecraft will be launched.

Last month, the ISS had a problem with coolant leaking from the docked Russian spacecraft "Soyuz", which caused a sudden postponement of extravehicular activities by Russian astronauts.



Regarding this trouble, NASA and the Russian state-owned space development corporation "Roscosmos" were considering how to deal with it, but on the 11th, they decided to return the leaking Soyuz to Earth without an astronaut on board. Announced.



Then, the new spacecraft "Soyuz" will be launched from the ground, and Russian and NASA astronauts will be able to board it and return to Earth.



At the time of the trouble, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and other astronauts who were staying on the ISS were not in danger, and extravehicular activities resumed last month.