Posted on 08/30/2018 8:05:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A small air leak was detected on the International Space Station Wednesday night (Aug. 29) but does not pose an immediate danger to the astronauts currently living aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Flight controllers on Earth began to notice signs of a slight pressure drop in the orbiting laboratory around 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT), while the six crewmembers of Expedition 56 were sleeping, NASA officials said in a statement today (Aug. 30).
Because the pressure loss was "very small," flight controllers determined that the astronauts and cosmonauts "are in no danger," officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a separate statement.
After the crew awoke today, flight controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Russian Mission Control Center near Moscow alerted them to the problem so the astronauts could begin working to pinpoint the leak's location. They determined that the leak is in the Russian segment of the space station, but the exact module and cause have not been identified, NASA officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Or split the crew into two watches?
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Russians and Leaks 24/7
But what happens if something like a rock hits it at 26,000 MPH?
Not good.
No no ,Gorilla Tape
Time to take the chewing gum away from HAL — plug the hole.
Hi.
“They determined that the leak is in the Russian segment of the space station, “
Of course it is.
5.56mm
Russian segment of the space station , the Urine finally burned threw ?
Or mold....
“It’s growing in odd corners on the Mir space station
In the latest twist to the long saga of the Mir space station, biologists have stated their concerns about the fungi the platform will bring back to Earth when it splashes down this month.
“Russian NTV television interviewed Yuri Karash, a space expert who thinks the organisms, which have spent 15 years quietly mutating in their own isolated environment on Mir, could be a real problem....”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1209034.stm
that’s stuffs amazing
I hit a deer once and thankfully had some in my car and used it to tape my front bumper back on. it lasted 5 years that way
Oh No , The Blob !
The Russian launch vehicle isn't large enough for the 800# gorilla that delivers it.
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