International Space Station latest: Astronauts told to take shelter over ‘worsening air leaks’
https://news.sky.com/story/international-space-station-latest-astronauts-told-to-take-shelter-over-worsening-air-leaks-13549438
International Space Station latest: Astronauts told to take shelter over ‘worsening air leaks’
https://news.sky.com/story/international-space-station-latest-astronauts-told-to-take-shelter-over-worsening-air-leaks-13549438
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Astronauts told to prepare for evacuation… sounds scary as hell!
That Russian segment is toast… and they will still try to patch it up again.
I can only hope that they’re able to patch up the issue – but it does seem that Zvezda (I’m assuming the issue here) has been a ticking time bomb for quite a while.
It would be an ignominious end for the ISS to be retired as a result of corruption, incompetence and skill degradation within Roscosmos over the past couple of decades.
Sadly, everything Russia touches inevitably degrades everything around it. Not a surprise to see the ISS go the same way.
Wow that sounds awful. I really hope they have enough duct tape and wd40 up there
Couldn’t they very simplified and theoretically “close off” the section that is causing issues and replace it with a new section?
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I thought this was just clickbait from Sky, but other news outlets are reporting this too
“Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered by NASA to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation on Friday as a Russian crew attempts to fix a worsening leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.
The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two U.S. astronauts, a French astronaut and Russian cosmonaut – got orders from NASA mission control at 9:04 a.m. ET Monday to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and don their spacesuits in case the air leak warrants an emergency evacuation, a NASA official said.”
Woah this sounds serious and the order was just given in the last hour. I’d be pretty terrified to be the Russian crew working on the leak while NASA’s Crew 12 are donning their space suits and waiting in the Crew Dragon spacecraft just in case they need to do an emergency evac. I get it needs to be fixed and its either attempt a fix or abandon the ISS but how safe is the Russian crew exactly here?
Well, good job Starliner isn’t still docked
I wonder how long they could survive in suits if they absolutely needed to.
I can’t imagine being in an expired space station with things constantly breaking and failing all around you while moving tens of thousands of miles per hour in low orbit. Idk how they can mentally handle thinking “at any moment, this could be my last”
The ISS started launching in 1998 and the first crew was in 2000. That’s pretty good in my opinion for a manned spacecraft.
The older I get the more disappointed I am that we don’t have space stations like Deep Space Nine. And ships more like the Millennium Falcon.
Everything looks so cramped and cluttered.
Although Starship is definitely a step in the right direction.
If you’re wondering why the ISS will end up de-orbited instead of “preserved” in orbit this is a good illustration.
You can do maintenance and upgrades of the life support, solar panels, radiators etc. But at some point the core materials are just going to give up. They’ve spent **decades** being thermally cycled every 90 minutes or so.
It’s already past the design life, has growing problems with these leaks, so if we see it depressurised and an emergency evacuation happens it’s not going to be a surprise. If this is a close call it should be a very solid argument against extending the mission any further.
Oof. To be a Russian. Everyone else is like, “shelter in place, be ready to leave at a moments notice.” Russians: “get the duct tape, a single can of air, and fix the module or prepare to re-orbit Earth without a capsule.”
Of course it’s the Russian potemkin module acting up again 🙄
Russia has no money to make any fixes up there.
They are doomed
So what happens to the iss after? Like does it get abandoned forever 🤔
Jared Issacman right about now: “Get me Phil Swift!”
Stuff like this is why I don’t think it makes sense to extend it past 2030, or even raise its orbit for that matter. Too much of a maintence headache after more than 20 years. The longer they try to keep it going, the more likely something can go wrong. Congress needs to commit to funding CLD properly already so NASA can retire the ISS.
Hopefully everyone will be good!
Edit: I’m not seeing this reported, so I guess don’t take my comment as fact. That is what I thought I heard through the radio comms on the live stream.
Sounds like the Russian crew elected to only take measurements today, and the crew was just told they can start getting ready to exit shelter and go back in? This was on the livestream, so I don’t know if I am understanding that correctly.
Nothing a bit of gaffer tape won’t fix. It will be up and running again in no time
Awk a bit of silicon will sort it right out.
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> The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station got orders from NASA mission control at 9:04 a.m. ET Monday to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and don their spacesuits, a NASA official said.
Have they been in Dragon since Monday? That sounds miserable.
I wonder can they smell space through it 🤔
a bit sensationalist. It’s not like something just opened up. They’re just trying more extensive repairs on leaks that have existed for a while
Has anything like this been ordered before?
When I first heard the ISS would be retired and de orbited I took offense to it. But, I’m seeing more and more that it’s at end of life. I know it’s one module that’s been the problem, but it feels like where other modules will be at some point anyway.
Expanding and contracting every 90 minutes over decades will wear things out no matter what.
Astronauts have now been told it is ok to carry on with normal procedures. “Safe haven” procedure has now ended.
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I assume this is fire drill style posturing they do anytime substantial work on the pressure vessel components of the ISS needs to be done. They don’t **expect** a need to evacuate the station in a hurry, but they want everyone to be in position if SHTF.
I remember the constant emergencies of MIR. This is starting to sound like that.
Some schmuck from Virgin Atlantic shouldnt be called an astronaut. Quoting him as an expert is lazy journalism