WORLD NEWS | 3 astronauts delay return to space station in September

MOSCOW, March 24 (AP) — Three astronauts scheduled to leave the International Space Station this month will return to Earth in late September, doubling their time at the orbiting laboratory, the Russian space agency announced Friday. , reaching more than a year.

The return of Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA’s Frank Rubio has been delayed because The Soyuz capsule they were planning to ride suffered a coolant leak while docking with the space station.

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In late February, an empty Soyuz was sent to the space station as a rescue module.

The three-person replacement crew originally scheduled to board the capsule are now scheduled to head to the space station on Sept. 15, the Roscosmos space agency said.

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Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will return on September 27; they launch on September 21, 2022. (Associated Press)

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