The International Space Station has an ‘air leak’

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and his Roscosmos teammates Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin will spend the weekend huddled in the station’s Zvezda service module. The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, aboard which the three-person crew traveled to the space station last April, and which can bring them back to Earth in an emergency, is attached to a small laboratory near the Russian module.

‘A busy weekend for us’

Russian state-controlled media RIA Novosti first reported the problem Thursday, August 20, explaining that a source described it as “a small air leak”. To find the source of the leak, astronauts and mission controllers plan to close all Space Station hatches by Friday and monitor the air pressure in each one until Monday.

“The test does not present any safety concerns for the crew. The test should determine which module has a higher than normal leak rate,” NASA said. “US and Russian specialists expect preliminary results to be available for review by the end of next week.”

Josh Matthew, who heads NASA’s flight controllers responsible for the space station’s environmental and thermal systems, tweeted Thursday evening that his team had done “an impressive job” of putting together the plan.

“It’s going to be a busy weekend for us. We look forward to finding and fixing the source of the leak, so that we can stop planning such frequent repressurizations. I will continue to work on the Soyuz leak from there. is two years old, ”he said.

“Everyone wants to find her before the next mission [SpaceX] no longer bring people to the station, “Matthew added, referring to the Crew-1 mission which is currently due to launch on October 23, at best, with NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Mike

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