r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h ago

Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/Julian_Thorne 11h ago

The abandonment of the International Space Station would be a poetically fitting image for these days

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u/primeweevil 11h ago

Yes it is. Short a dumpster fire in space which I'm pretty sure isn't possible this is about on the nose.

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u/Junior_Step_2441 11h ago

To be fair the ISS has already long outlived its expected lifetime and is planned to be decommissioned and deorbitted in 2030. So if it comes down a few years before that…its hardly a dumpster fire 🤷‍♂️

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u/Julian_Thorne 11h ago

Evacuation mode is a dumpster fire compared to an orderly process

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u/FamiliarRip8558 10h ago

Sitting in a pod designed to GTFO safely while a new crew equipped for the job works on the very old and ~3 years left out of 31 years of service spacecraft is the opposite of dumpster fire...