The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will autonomously dock to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft as a ride home for ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin as well as NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added …