Space agency mounts rescue mission to bring home two cosmonauts and US astronaut marooned on ISS
US astronaut Frank Rubio (right) with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev (centre) and Dmitri Petelin wave to relatives and friends before the launch of the Soyuz-2.1 rocket in Kazakhstan last September. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
US astronaut Frank Rubio (right) with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev (centre) and Dmitri Petelin wave to relatives and friends before the launch of the Soyuz-2.1 rocket in Kazakhstan last September. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
