MOSCOW (Reuters) – A damaged Russian Soyuz MS-22 capsule landed back on Earth on Tuesday, three months after a coolant leak was detected on the craft while it was docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on […]
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Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule lands back on Earth
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A damaged Russian Soyuz MS-22 capsule landed back on Earth on Tuesday, three months after a coolant leak was detected on the craft while it was docked at the International Space Station (ISS).
The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday afternoon, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia’s space launch programme.
The capsule’s landing was broadcast online by the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey)