I’m thinking, what if it got pierced by a micro-meteor? The escaping air would act as a thruster on the space station. Hope they have self-repairing walls like they have self-repairing tires on some automobiles when a flat occurs. Then again, the regular walls of the space station aren’t much safer against a micro-meteor hit.
Exactly...There are not many sections of the ISS that would be protected against a micrometeor. Remember, the pressure differential in space is basically one atmosphere. This is literally nothing compared to say, the pressure differential at 300 feet deep in the ocean, much less 30000 feet.
The ISS is pressurized at about 15 psi...Not much of a thruster. :) The pressure loss would identified by the environmental monitoring systems immediately, and a patch applied.
It is self-healing rubber just like fighter aircraft fuel tanks.