The leak was located in one of the service modules, and the crew of the American astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivaniszyn and Ivan Wagner plans to eliminate it in the coming days – said Sergei Krikalov, executive director of Roskosmos, quoted by the Russian agency RIA-Novosti.
– At the moment, we consider it to be in the Russian segment, in the area of the service module. We check all the data from the test – said Kenny Todd, NASA’s deputy director of the International Space Station, quoted by the Reuters Agency.
No threat to life and health
In a statement published on its website, Roskosmos wrote that the leak was located in the Zwiezda module, belonging to the Russian part of the station. It was added that the situation does not pose a threat to the life and health of the crew and does not hinder the further work of the ISS.
Roscosmos also announced that additional air could be delivered to the station.
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