Let them come home!!
In its statement, NASA declined to put a date on the again-postponed ISS return flight that was scheduled for February 19, which leaves the question of when those poor astronauts will get to come home., NASA space station program manager Joel Montalbano said if they have to, the crew aboard the ISS currently are "prepared to stay until the September launch date if that’s the case."
His counterpart, Roscosmos' Sergei Krikalev, was, in peak Russian fashion, decidedly less optimistic in his framing. "We will probably extend the stay of this crew, Expedition 68, on the station for an extra several months," Krikalev said. "What will be the exact date to send replacements for them is not decided yet, but it’s going to be several months longer mission."
Whether preparing for the worst or hoping for the best, it now seems pretty clear that Petelin, Prokopyev, and Rubio will be forced to stay on the ISS for significantly longer than they were supposed to — that is, if NASA and Roscomos can figure out what in the heavens is happening with these coolant leaks.
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