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by rkagerer 1277 days ago
Wait - are you saying there is no built-in redundancy for one Soyuz going out of service?
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The redundancy is already there — both the ISS itself and the Soyuz parked there are able to keep the crew alive. If one of these fails, the other one will prevent immediate loss of life, but something still needs to be done ASAP about the situation.
2 is 1 and 1 is none.

Its like losing one drive in a RAID mirror; you still have a "RAID", well, kind of, but should be nervous until its replaced...