International Space Station crew shelter as Russian team repairs air leak
NASA ordered the International Space Station crew to shelter in their docked spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation as Russian cosmonauts attempt to repair a worsening air leak in the station's Russian segment. The agency directed crew to close hatches and move into the docked vehicles to maintain a safe refuge and enable rapid departure if pressure loss escalates. NASA said Russian cosmonauts are conducting on-orbit repairs while ground teams monitor station pressure and contingency plans, a situation that directly threatens crew safety and could disrupt science operations aboard the orbiting laboratory.
I've been searching for the official NASA comms on this, but nothing. Lots of sites reporting in the last hour the ISS crew got orders "to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft...& don their spacesuits in case the air leak warranted an emergency evacuation". 🤞hoping they can fix this🤞🔭🧪⚛️🛰️
Chris Baraniuk3Bethany Stevens (@NASASpox) / X share.google/x9xOVxKVIyQo... This account is listed on NASA's website.
Gavin2I saw from NASA that everything is back to normal, and there was no threat to the astronauts, so this really just seems like a bunch of sensationalist reporting.
Bill L2This is not good, regardless which country the section belongs to
Yikes www.reuters.com/science/inte... One thing we tried to emphasize in A City on Mars is that this sort of thing is pretty common. A lot of doing space is maintenance, not gazing out at the horizon. However, this is pretty extreme. Hope it gets resolved quickly.
Zach Weinersmith56When I very first read about this stuff one of the surprises is that you can have a leak at all! In fact, it's quite normal. Spacecrafts leak gas, and it's OK as long as the leak is slow. Downside to a slow leak is it can be hard to find.
MaskedWannabeFarmer3This is something I liked in the Expanse books. The spacers always checking things by habit.
