Good morning from Mission Control in Houston and the International Space Station Flake

Control Room.

Clay at last year, three men, two Russians and one American, were lying on their backs

in a capsule on top of a rocket and Kazakhstan's desert step.

Countdown clocks are ticking backward for the launch of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.

They were headed to the International Space Station.

The crew is all set to begin its three-hour flight docking schedule to 12-11 pm central

time to the earth-facing side of the Russian segment.

After the pre-flight tradition of listening to some music, music being piped into the

spacecraft, basically keeping them relaxed in the final minutes of the countdown that

will lead to launch.

They were shot through the earth's atmosphere at nearly 18,000 miles an hour and lift off.

The journey up went to plan, but coming home might not be as easy.

There's three crew members onboard the International Space Station, two cosmonauts in

an astronaut.

They got hit by a micro-media roi back in December.

The ship lost all of its coolant after a direct hit from a microscopic micro-media roi,

while docked at the International Space Station.

Basically, their lifeboat has a serious enough problem that they can't trust it to bring

them home.

So three went up, but with their ride home damaged and tensions between Russia and the

US ramping up, will all three come back down?

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