Excerpt from news authored by Wiliam Hunter, Daily Mail
Published at 07:33 EDT, October 28, 2024
The U.S. space agency and its Russian counterpart, Roscomos, are tracking 50 ‘areas of concern’ related to a growing leak aboard the station.
NASA‘s astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been told to prepare for an urgent evacuation amid growing safety concerns.
NASA is now calling the cracks in a Russian service module a ‘top safety risk‘ — escalating the threat rating to five out of five.
Astronauts have been warned to stay in the American section when the module is open so they can be close to their spacecraft in case of an emergency evacuation.
Although officials have been aware of the issue since 2019, the exact source of the leak is still unknown.
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