Russian Soyuz spacecraft initiates mission to return crew stranded on ISS.

 According to the Tass news agency, the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 launched from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre and was successfully sent into orbit. The ISS was to be docked with it.
The mission of US astronaut Francisco Rubio, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, and them were supposed to terminate in March.
Their Soyuz MS-22 capsule’s cooling system began to leak two months ago, leaving them stranded in orbit.
This Monday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that the trio would now travel back to Earth in September on the Soyuz MS-23.
In March, the damaged MS-22 spacecraft is now slated to touch down without a crew.