The decision comes after the Soyuz spacecraft, which carried two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut, was damaged.
The replacement craft, which will have no crew onboard, is to be launched Feb. 20 to pick up Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin as well as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who arrived at the station in September.
NASA and Roscosmos have said that the crew members on the station are not in danger and that they have continued to conduct research and science experiments, including growing tomatoes, while crews on the ground developed a solution for the problem. Seven people are onboard the station: the three who flew on the Soyuz craft in September and four who flew to the station in October on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which also is docked at the station.
Sergei Krikalev, the executive director of Roscosmos’ human spaceflight programs, said the agencies prepare for this sort of situation, knowing they are extremely rare. “This is a scenario we envision, and now we are basically following the procedure,” he said.
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