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Crew members on the space station are still hunting for the source of a leak, though NASA says most areas have been ruled out – Business Insider Australia

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A tiny bit of air always leaks from the International Space Station. But not quite as much as is leaking now.
Officials first noticed a possible leak last September, but they didn’t do anything about it for nearly a year, since the leak wasn’t major. Plus, station operations like spacewalks and crew exchanges kept ISS crew members too busy to collect enough data about the issue.
Recently, however, technicians detected an increase to the already elevated leak rate. So NA…

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