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The International Space Station has sprung ‘a small air leak,’ so a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts are hunkering down to help find and repair it – Business Insider Australia
The International Space Station, a football field-size laboratory, is not perfectly sealed, and is always leaking a bit of air.
- The International Space Station is experiencing a “slightly increased” leakage of air, NASA said Thursday.
- NASA said the leak “presents no immediate danger to the crew or the space station” and is currently within normal operating limits.
- However, due to the new increase, two cosmonauts and an astronaut living aboard the ISS will spend this weekend inside a Russian module to help locate the source.
- The crew has a Soyuz spaceship in the event an urgen…
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