<span style="color: #222222;">Russia will launch a rescue vessel to the International Space Station next month, February, to bring home three crew members who are in effect stuck in orbit after their original capsule was hit by a meteoroid. </span><br />''<br />''The docked Soyuz MS-22 sprang a major leak last month, spraying radiator coolant into space and prompting a pair of cosmonauts to abort a planned spacewalk. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos said that the strike caused no immediate threat to the crew of the space station. <br />''<br />''The Roscosmos said, it has decided to bring forward a planned March launch of the Soyuz MS-23 to 20 February so it can be used to transport the Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and the US astronaut Francisco Rubio back to Earth. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Space has remained a rare area in which Moscow and Washington have continued cooperation despite the Russian special military operations in Ukraine and consequent Western sanctions on Russia. </span><br />