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Передача командования станцией


Символический ключ от МКС и... уже традиционные склянки!


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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/12/18/commander-hands-over-control-and-prepares-for-holiday-homecoming/

Commander Hands Over Control and Prepares for Holiday Homecoming

Mark Garcia
Posted Dec 18, 2018 at 4:53 pm


Astronaut Alexander Gerst (left) handed over station command today to cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko.

The Expedition 57 commander handed over control of the International Space Station today in a traditional ceremony. He and two of his crewmates will then head back to Earth Wednesday just in time for the holidays.

Commander Alexander Gerst ceremonially transferred command of the orbital lab today to cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko who officially begins his lead of the station when the homebound crew undocks tomorrow. Kononenko is staying behind with Expedition 58 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques who will stay on the station until June.

Gerst and Flight Engineers Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev are winding down their 197-day mission in space. The trio will undock from the Rassvet module inside the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft Wednesday at 8:40 p.m. and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three-and-a-half hours later.

Prokopyev will command the Soyuz flight back to Earth tomorrow flanked by Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor. Today he is packing and readying the spacecraft for the departure. The undocking and landing activities will be broadcast live on NASA TV.

There was still time for science on the orbital lab today as Gerst explored how astronauts manipulate objects in space. Results could improve the design of space habitats and impact neurology patients on Earth. He also joined Auñón-Chancellor for ultrasound scans and blood sample collections as they wrap up their human research studies.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2018/12/17/iss-daily-summary-report-12172018/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/17/2018

Airway Monitoring:

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Today the crew performed the setup activities for the upcoming Airway Monitoring US Lab (ambient) session. The Airway Monitoring investigation aims to determine in detail the pulmonary nitric oxide (NO) turnover in weightlessness and in combined weightless, hypobaric and hypoxic environments. The goal is also to determine the lung diffusion capacity for NO with dust particles present in the ISS atmosphere. This investigation studies the occurrence and indicators of airway inflammation in crewmembers, using ultra-sensitive gas analyzers to analyze exhaled air. This will help to identify health impacts and support maintenance of crewmember well-being on future human spaceflight missions, such as to the Moon and Mars, where crewmembers will have to be more self-sufficient in identifying and avoiding such conditions.

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Functional Immune:

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HRF saliva collections were performed in support of the end-of-mission sample collection. Functional Immune analyzes blood and saliva samples to determine the changes taking place in crewmembers' immune systems during flight. The changes in the immune system are also compared with crewmembers' self-reported health information. Results are expected to provide new insight into the possible health risks of long-duration space travel, including future missions to Mars, asteroids, or other distant destinations.

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Nanoracks Module 74:

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Today a crewmember placed the 6 microplates into Plate Reader-2 for scanning, and then stowed them back into Module-74. The Module-74 experiment investigates the Effects of Microgravity on Controlled Release of Antibiotics and Curing Mechanism of a Novel Wound Dressing (Hydrogel Formation and Drug Release in Microgravity Conditions) and studies the formation and drug release from cross-linked or mixed hydrogels in microgravity.

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Crystallization of LRRK2 Under Microgravity Conditions-2 (CASIS PCG-16) microscope observations:

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The crew performed a microscope observation on the PCG-16 Card that was loaded three weeks ago. CASIS PCG-16 evaluates growth of Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) protein crystals in microgravity. LRRK2 is implicated in Parkinson's disease, but crystals of the protein grown on Earth are too small and compact to study. Detailed analysis of larger, space-grown crystals can define the protein's exact shape and morphology and help scientists better understand the disease's pathology.

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Rodent Research-8 (RR-8):

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The crew performed a Habitat restock for units 1-4 and a cleaning of the animal access unit. During the Habitat restock activities, mold was observed on 2 of the food bars. One of these bars was trashed. The small spots of mold on the other food bar were scraped off prior to installation. The RR-8 investigation utilizes mice flown aboard the ISS, and maintained on Earth, to investigate the physiology of aging in response to microgravity and the role of aging in the onset and progression of disease. The mice on-board ISS consist of 40 total mice divided into 2 age groups.

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SpaceX-16 Cargo Operations:

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The crew completed cargo unloading from the Dragon vehicle last week. This week, the Crew has started to pack items for return. Approximately 26 hours of cargo loading remains to be completed in preparation for Dragon's departure on January 13, 2019.

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Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations:

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On Saturday December 15, the Robotic Ground Controllers translated the Mobile Transporter (MT) from Worksite (WS) 6 to 7. Then, they maneuvered the Space Station Robotic Manipulator System (SSRMS) to grapple the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator (SPDM). Following that, the SSRMS maneuvered SPDM towards still grappled to the Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3) Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM) and successfully installed it onto its final location on Express Logistics Carrier 1 (ELC1) site 3. On Sunday, they maneuvered the SSRMS and stowed SPDM on the Mobile Base System (MBS) Power Data Fixture (PDGF) #2. After SSRMS released SPDM PDGF, the MT was translated from WS7 to WS4. Finally, SSRMS was maneuvered as required to Walk off onto Lab PDGF and SSRMS was position at park position.

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https://www.roscosmos.ru/25875/

19.12.2018 14:19
На МКС завершает работу 57-я длительная экспедиция

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На Международной космической станции (МКС) завершается работа 57-й длительной экспедиции. Члены международного экипажа транспортного пилотируемого корабля (ТПК) «Союз МС-09» космонавт Сергей Прокопьев (Роскосмос), астронавты Александр Герст (ESA) и Серина Ауньён-Чэнселлор (NASA) готовятся к возвращению на Землю.

В настоящее время в соответствии с планом полёта осуществляется укладка возвращаемых грузов в спускаемый аппарат ТПК «Союз МС-09», проводятся бортовые тренировки экипажа и проверки основных систем корабля.

По предварительным данным службы баллистико-навигационного обеспечения Центра управления полётами (ЦУП) расстыковка корабля «Союз МС-09» с МКС планируется 20 декабря 2018 года в 04 час. 40 мин. 30 сек. мск.

Продолжительность пребывания в космическом полёте экипажа экспедиции МКС-56/57 составит 197 суток (выведение на заданную орбиту транспортного пилотируемого корабля состоялось 6 июня 2018 года).

После расстыковки ТПК «Союз МС-09» с Международной космической станцией и до прибытия на борт МКС участников следующей экспедиции работу на орбите продолжит экипаж в составе космонавта Роскосмоса Олега Кононенко, астронавта CSA Давида Сен-Жака и астронавта NASA Энн Макклейн.

Приземление спускаемого аппарата корабля «Союз МС-09» ожидается в 08 час. 04 мин. мск в 147 км юго-восточнее города Жезказган в Казахстане.

Онлайн-трансляция возвращения экипажа начнется в 01:15 мск на нашем сайте online.roscosmos.ru и в сообществе ВКонтакте.

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http://online.roscosmos.ru/

ON-LINE ТРАНСЛЯЦИЯ

ВОЗВРАЩЕНИЕ НА ЗЕМЛЮ ЭКИПАЖА ПИЛОТИРУЕМОГО КОРАБЛЯ «СОЮЗ МС-09»

20 декабря экипаж пилотируемого корабля «Союз МС-09» возвращается на Землю.

Начало трансляции	01:15 мск
Закрытие люков	01:30-01:50 мск
Расстыковка корабля с МКС	04:39-04:41 мск
Возобновление трансляции из ЦУП	07:00 мск
Включение двигателя на торможение	07:10 мск
Разделение корабля на отсеки	07:38 мск
Вход спускаемого аппарата в атмосферу	07:40 мск
Ввод основной парашютной системы	07:49 мск
Посадка	08:03 мск

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https://ria.ru/20181219/1548250407.html

Российский космонавт Кононенко стал командиром МКС
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МОСКВА, 19 дек - РИА Новости. Российский космонавт Олег Кононенко стал командиром Международной космической станции, получив из рук европейского астронавта Александра Герста символический ключ от станции, сообщает Роскосмос.

"На Международной космической станции состоялась церемония передачи командования. Полномочия управления станцией и символический ключ передал командир экспедиции МКС-57 астронавт Александр Герст командиру экспедиции МКС-58 космонавту Олегу Кононенко", - говорится в сообщении, опубликованном в Twitter госкорпорации.

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Герст вместе с российским космонавтом Сергеем Прокопьевым и американским астронавтом Сериной Ауньен-Чэнселлор утром в четверг вернутся на Землю в спускаемом аппарате космического корабля "Союз МС-09".

Кононенко с американским астронавтом Энн Макклейн и канадским астронавтом Давидом Сен-Жаком останутся работать на МКС.

Ранее источник РИА Новости в ракетно-космической отрасли сообщил, что американские астронавты полтора года не будут командовать МКС, а ближайшие десять месяцев бразды правления станцией будут у россиян. В октябре 2019 года командование МКС перейдет к итальянцу Луке Пармитано, а в феврале 2020 года — к россиянину Олегу Скрипочке. И только в апреле 2020 года командиром станции снова сможет стать американский астронавт.

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https://ria.ru/20181219/1548262935.html

Источник: солнечные батареи защитили российский модуль МКС от перегрева
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МОСКВА, 19 дек - РИА Новости. Американские солнечные батареи на МКС затенили российский модуль "Звезда" от Солнца, чтобы аппаратура модуля и российские космонавты, живущие и работающие в нем, не перегрелись, сообщил РИА Новости в среду источник в ракетно-космической отрасли.

"Сейчас орбита, по которой летает станция, полностью освещена Солнцем. В результате радиаторы "Звезды" неэффективно отводят тепло из модуля, и его оборудование внутри может перегреваться. Также повышение температуры может создать неудобство работающим и живущим в модуле российским космонавтам", - сказал собеседник агентства.

Он добавил, что в связи с этим вчера была изменена ориентация МКС, благодаря чему панели американских солнечных батарей периодически затеняют радиаторы модуля "Звезда" и таким образом улучшают теплоотвод из модуля.

Как сообщали космонавты, средняя температура на МКС составляет плюс 23 градуса Цельсия.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2018/12/18/iss-daily-summary-report-12182018/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/18/2018

Change of Command Ceremony:

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Expedition 57 CDR Alexander Gerst handed off station command to Expedition 58 CDR Oleg Kononenko this afternoon. The Expedition 57 Crew (Alexander Gerst, Sergey Prokopev, Serena Auñón-Chancellor) are scheduled to undock fr om ISS tomorrow, December 19 at 7:40PM CT with landing set to occur at 11:03PM CT.

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Advanced Plant Experiment-05 (APEX-05):

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Today the APEX-05 Petri Plate was removed from the FIR/LMM (Fluids Integrated Rack/Light Microscopy Module), closing out the experiment. The team reports that successful imaging of root tips was accomplished. Originally the APEX-05 experiment flew on SpaceX-13 and was partially completed except for the imagery of the two LMM (Light Microscopy Module) plate samples as the LMM was not operating at the time. A new LMM wide-field camera has been installed, and two LMM samples were re-flown on SpaceX-16. The Spaceflight-induced Hypoxic/ROS Signaling (APEX-05) experiment grows different wild and mutant varieties of Arabidopsis thaliana, in order to understand how their genetic and molecular stress response systems work in space.

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Airway Monitoring:

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The crew performed the necessary calibrations, followed by Low nitric oxide (NO) and High NO measurements for the ambient pressure session in the US Lab. The ground team reported they believe they obtained a good data set from today's session. The ESA Airway Monitoring investigation aims to determine in detail the pulmonary NO turnover in weightlessness and in combined weightless, hypobaric and hypoxic environments. The goal is also to determine the lung diffusion capacity for NO with dust particles present in the ISS atmosphere. This investigation studies the occurrence and indicators of airway inflammation in crewmembers, using ultra-sensitive gas analyzers to analyze exhaled air. This will help to identify health impacts and support maintenance of crewmember well-being on future human spaceflight missions, such as to the Moon and Mars, wh ere crewmembers will have to be more self-sufficient in identifying and avoiding such conditions.

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Grip Supine session:

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The crew performed the GRIP science tasks while restrained on the chair and wearing a noise-cancelling system. ESA's Grip investigation tests how the nervous system takes into account the forces due to gravity and inertia when manipulating objects. Results from this investigation may provide insight into potential hazards for astronauts as they manipulate objects in different gravitational environments. They also support design and control of haptic interfaces to be used in challenging environments such as space, and provide information about motor control that will be useful for the evaluation and rehabilitation of impaired upper limb control in patients with neurological diseases.

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Nanoracks Module 74:

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Today a crewmember sequentially placed the 6 microplates into the Plate Reader-2 for scanning, and then stowed them back into Module-74. This is day 10 of the scanning operations. The Module-74 experiment investigates the Effects of Microgravity on Controlled Release of Antibiotics and Curing Mechanism of a Novel Wound Dressing (Hydrogel Formation and Drug Release in Microgravity Conditions) and studies the formation and drug release from cross-linked or mixed hydrogels in microgravity.

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TangoLab-2 card cube replacement:

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Today a crewmember swapped out experiment cubes on Card #12 and re-inserted the Card back into the TangoLab-2 unit. The new cube (EMLT_TOC01) mission name is Organs-On-Chips as a Platform for Studying Effects of Microgravity on Human Physiology. Its goal is to analyze the effect of microgravity and other space-related stressors on the brain-blood barrier (BBB). It uses fully automated tissue chip technology, a Brain-Chip consisting of living neuronal and vascular endothelial cells in a micro-engineered environment.

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РОСКОСМОС‏Подлинная учетная запись @roscosmos 10:54 - 19 дек. 2018 г.

Экипаж корабля #СоюзМС09 в составе Сергея Прокопьева, Александра Герста и Серины Ауньён-Чэнселлор готовится к возвращению на Землю!

Закрытие люков — 01:30 мск
Расстыковка корабля с МКС — 04:40 мск
Посадка — 08:03 мск

Трансляция будет доступна на сайте — http://online.roscosmos.ru 

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/19/station-crew-set-for-overnight-landing-in-kazakhstan/

Station crew set for overnight landing in Kazakhstan
December 19, 2018 | William Harwood

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION


NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst, and Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev are set for landing in Kazakhstan Thursday. Credit: Roscosmos

Eight days after a dramatic spacewalk to inspect the site of a leak in the hull of his Soyuz ferry ship, Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev, German flight engineer Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor geared up to depart the International Space Station Wednesday for a fiery plunge back to Earth.

The flight plan called for the crew to board the Soyuz MS-09/55S spacecraft and seal the hatch around 5:20 p.m. EST, undocking fr om the space station's Earth-facing Rassvet module at 8:40 p.m.

After moving a safe distance away, Prokopyev and Gerst plan to monitor a planned four-minute 37-second rocket firing starting at 11:10 p.m., slowing the ship by about 286 mph to lower the far side of the orbit into the atmosphere for a descent to the steppe of Kazakhstan.

If all goes well, the spacecraft's central descent module, the section of the spacecraft carrying the crew, will make a parachute-and-rocket-assisted touchdown near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, around 12:03 a.m. Thursday (11:03 a.m. local time).

With up to four inches of snow in the area, Russian recovery crews and medical personnel, along with U.S. and European Space Agency support teams, will be stationed nearby to help the returning crew members out of the cramped crew compartment as they begin their re-adaptation to gravity six months after launch fr om the Baikonur Cosmodrome on June 6.

With touchdown, Prokopyev and Auñón-Chancellor will have logged 196 days 17 hours and 51 minutes off the planet during their first space mission while Gerst, veteran of a 165-day stay aboard the station in 2014, will have nearly a full year of cumulative time aloft.

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Asked what she was looking forward to the most, Auñón-Chancellor said "that's easy. Family. That's what you miss the most up here."

"I don't think you ever really get used to it," she told CBS News in an interview last month. "You have reminders, we have pictures, we get special video conference calls, but it's not like being in the arms of your loved ones."

Second on her list behind family "would be just the feelings of Earth," she said. "For example, the wind, the rain. We were watching a video the other day and I remember being very jealous of watching somebody stand by the ocean because I knew they could feel the wind and smell the sea. And we can't do that up here."

After brief medical checks and satellite phone calls home to friends and family, Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor will be flown by helicopter to Dzhezkazgan for an official welcome home ceremony. Prokopyev then will head back to Star City near Moscow while Gerst heads for Cologne, Germany. Auñón-Chancellor will return to her home near the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Asked what she will miss the most about life aboard the station, Auñón-Chancellor said "it sounds kind of simple, but floating everywhere is pretty awesome."

"At first when you get up here you're sort of this ungraceful ballerina who can't manage anything ... but this is my favorite part," she said, turning a slow flip aboard the station. "It lets you work in three dimensions, and you just realize what your body's able to accomplish up here that you just don't do on Earth.

"That is what I'm going to miss the most. Of course, looking outside and seeing the Earth is absolutely beautiful. But watching the way the human body adapts to being up here is amazing."

Left behind in orbit with the departure of the Soyuz MS-09 crew will be Expedition 58 commander Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain. They originally expected to launch last week, joining cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and Nick Hague aboard the station.

But Ovchinin and Hague were victims of a launch abort Oct. 11, the first for a Soyuz spacecraft since 1983. Instead of reaching the station and joining Gerst, Prokopyev and Auñón-Chancellor, Ovchinin and Hague were forced to make an emergency landing near Dzhezkazgan, throwing a wrench into the carefully planned crew rotation schedule.

Russian engineers quickly traced the problem to the system used to control the separation of the four liquid-fueled strap-on boosters making up the Soyuz FG booster's first stage. A fix was relatively straight forward.

After assessing multiple options, Russian managers opted to move up launch of Kononenko's crew from Dec. 20 to Dec. 3 and to delay the departure of Gerst and his crewmates from Dec. 13 to Dec. 20.

Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, also moved up the next flight in the sequence. That mission, originally planned for early April, was to have carried Russian commander Oleg Skripochka, NASA astronaut Christina Koch and a United Arab Emirates guest astronaut to the station.

Instead, Ovchinin and Hague will join Koch aboard the Soyuz MS-12/58S spacecraft, launching to the station at the end of February.

In an interview with CBS News at his home in Houston, Hague said he had full confidence in the Soyuz's safety systems and that he was looking forward to fulfilling his mission.

"What we're doing up there on the space station every day, it's important," he said. "We're trying to open humanity's eyes, discover new things, make life better on the ground and push farther into the universe. That's a really important thing to be doing, and it benefits so many people. So you accept the risk because you believe in what you're doing."

His wife, Catie, agreed, but said she was still nervous about the idea of her husband riding a rocket into space.

"I was very nervous (during the October launch), and I'm still nervous," she said. "There's risk, there's a lot of risk with what they do, and to be on the outside of that looking in, wh ere you have absolutely no control, is scary. It's scary.

"But I trust him," she said, "I trust his training, I trust his commander Alexey implicitly, and I know everybody is really invested in their safety."

It wasn't just the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft that gave the Russians problems. The Soyuz MS-09 ferry ship that Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor are relying on for their trip home had trouble of its own last August when sensors aboard the station detected a slight drop in the lab's air pressure.

The leak was not deemed serious enough to wake the crew, but the next morning the four astronauts and two cosmonauts making up the Expedition 56 crew traced the leak to the upper "orbital" module of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft.

Photographs of the hole that were downlinked by the station crew showed what appeared to be a drilled-out penetration in an interior panel with several nearby gouges like those that would be caused by a drill skipping across a surface before digging in.

Dmitry Rogozin, the director of Roscosmos, raised eyebrows when he did not immediately rule out the station's crew members among possible suspects. He said "it is a matter of honor for Energy Rocket and Space Corporation (Soyuz builder RSC Energia) to find the one responsible for that, to find out whether it was an accidental defect or a deliberate spoilage, and wh ere it was done – either on Earth or in space."

As one might expect, Drew Feustel, the commander of the station at the time, told interviewers his crew had nothing to do with the leak other than plugging it, and no one since then has suggested the possibility of any such involvement.

In any case, Prokopyev and fellow cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, acting on instructions from the Russian mission control center, plugged the hole with gauze soaked in epoxy. The plug held, and flight controllers later boosted cabin air pressure back to normal levels.

The crew was never in any danger, officials said, and a safe re-entry by the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft has never been in question because of the leak.

In a normal entry, the three modules making up a Soyuz spacecraft — the upper orbital section the crew compartment and the lower propulsion module — separate from each other just before falling back into the discernible atmosphere.

The upper and lower modules burn up while the descent module, the only one protected by a heat shield, continues on to touchdown. For the Soyuz MS-09 entry, the crew planned to follow normal practice, closing the hatch to the upper module before departing the space station. Even if a leak opened back up, it would have no effect on the sealed-off descent module.

But Russian engineers still wanted to inspect the exterior of the Soyuz's orbital module to find out if any of the epoxy had made it all the way through the hole and to collect any clues that might be available on the exterior.

By moving launch of Kononenko and his crewmates up to Dec. 3, and delaying the departure of the Gerst crew, the Russians ensured enough time with a full complement of crew members for a spacewalk by Prokopyev and Kononenko to do just that.

The cosmonauts ventured outside the station on Dec. 11 and cut through insulation and micrometeoroid shielding on the orbital revealing the site of the leak. They collected samples of the extruded epoxy and any chemical traces on the hull near the hole that will be returned to Earth for laboratory analysis.

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