Space station fire alarm goes off amid smoke, burning smell in Russian section
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Smoke alarms sounded Thursday aboard the International Space Station (ISS), prompting an air cleanse of the Russian segment before crews returned to normal operations.
"A smoke detector was triggered in the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station during automatic battery charging, and an alarm went off," Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement. "To eliminate possible smoke pollution by the crew, an aggregate filter for cleaning the atmosphere was turned on." French astronaut Thomas Pesquet said "the smell of burning plastic or electronic equipment" wafted to the U.S. segment of the station, though, according to CBS News.More Related News