Russian space officials say air leak at International Space Station poses no danger to its crew
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Russian space officials acknowledged a continuing air leak from the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
Russian space officials on Wednesday acknowledged a continuing air leak from the Russian segment of the International Space Station, but said it poses no danger to its crew.
The Roscosmos state corporation said that specialists were monitoring the leak and the crew “regularly conducts work to locate and fix possible spots of the leak."
“There is no threat to the crew or the station itself,” it said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
Roscosmos' statement followed comments by Joel Montalbano, NASA's station project manager, who noted Wednesday that the leak in the Russian segment has increased but emphasised that it remains small and poses no threat to the crew's safety or vehicle operations.
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As the space outpost is aging, the crew has to spend more time to repair and maintain it, Roscosmos said..
Russian space officials first reported a leak in the Zvezda module in August 2020 and later that year Russian crew members located what they believed was its source and tried to fix it. In November 2021, another potentially leaky spot was found in a different part of the Russian section of the station.
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