Věděli jste tohle?
They're alive and good, but here's the worst part:
Only one Soyuz is docked to the ISS right now, and the Soyuz spacecraft has an orbital time of 200 days. It was launched in June, therefore its 200 days will end in December, so they will have to send it back. Next Soyuz launch will most likely be delayed for like 6 months so the crew has a choice:
1) throw empty Souyz away because it exceeded its orbital time and live in the ISS without possibility of emergency evacuation for a few months
2) go home in 2 months leave the ISS empty
Option 1) is too dangerous and neither NASA nor Roscosmos is going to take the risk. So most likely the ISS will be empty for the first time in 17 years.