Russia delays launch of relief ship to keep investigating space station leak

FILE PHOTO: Chief of Russian space agency Roscosmos Yuri Borisov looks on before the Soyuz MS-22 launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

(Reuters) - Russia is delaying the launch of a ship to bring two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut back from the International Space Station (ISS) while it investigates a pressure loss in another module, its space agency said on Monday.

Roscosmos and the U.S. space agency NASA had said that a Soyuz MS-23 ship would be launched on Feb. 20 to bring back Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Frank Rubio.