NASA has said that none of the ISS crew was ever in any immediate danger from the leak. They were originally due to fly back home on the same spacecraft in March, but Krikalev and NASA's ISS program manager, Joel Montalbano, said Roscosmos would return them to Earth two or three weeks early if Russian space officials decide to launch an empty crew capsule for their retrieval.
Russia's space agency is considering a rescue plan to send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station to bring home three crew members ahead of schedule,.
Russia's space agency said it is considering a "rescue" plan to send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home three crew members ahead of schedule, after their Soyuz capsule…
A Soyuz capsule sprang a coolant leak while docked to the International Space Station last week, prompting the Russian space agency to consider bringing home its three astronauts.