Chapter 33.9: West Wing Shear

Ok, perhaps I missed something on tonight's episode, but there's a problem about the story line depicting the trouble with the International Space Station. My understanding is that there is an attached Soyuz capsule on the ISS at all times to serve as a lifeboat in the off chance the crew has to abandon the station. That could have been addressed in two sentences in the show, and I think it should have been. They could still have posited the military shuttle idea and suggested that CJ Cregg leaked the story to the New York Times, but the lifeboat should have been addressed. If I missed it, then mea culpa: it wouldn't be the first time.