Russia will bring three astronauts on the ISS to Earth

Russian officials announced yesterday that they will return three of the six astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to return this week, but there are no plans to bring them there.

An official from the Russian Space Flight Control Center told RIA Novosti that two Russian astronauts and one US astronaut will leave the ISS with Soyuz TMA-21 on September 16. They will land in an area of ​​Kazakhstan. Their return will make ISS numbers only three astronauts.

After the explosion of the Progress transport spacecraft on September 24, the Russian Federal Space Agency decided to postpone the launch of ships to bring people to ISS on September 22.

Officials say the cause of the accident is an error in rocket engines. They did not specify the time for the launch of a ship to send people to ISS.

Russia is currently the only country able to send people to ISS after the US shuttle fleet stopped operating in July.

The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) is concerned that ISS may fall into a state of uninhabited people for the first time in a decade if Russia cannot bring people to ISS in the next two months.