International Space Station astronauts prepare to evacuate over air leak - BERITAJA

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered by NASA to shelter successful their spacecraft and hole for imaginable removal connected Friday arsenic a Russian unit attempts to hole a worsening leak of aerial connected its information of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.

The 4 astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 ngo connected the station – 2 U.S. astronauts, a French astronaut and Russian cosmonaut – sewage orders from NASA ngo power astatine 9:04 a.m. ET Monday (1304 GMT) to participate their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and don their spacesuits successful lawsuit the aerial leak warrants an emergency evacuation, a NASA charismatic said.

NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, the station’s 2 superior operators, person debated for months complete the origin and imaginable fixes of mini aerial leaks aboard Russia’s Zvezda work module, a cardinal building of the shot field-sized laboratory.

The aerial leaks person been comparatively insignificant successful caller months but escalated connected Monday from a lb of aerial per time to 2 pounds, according to a elder NASA charismatic who asked not to beryllium named.