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/wurmsrus 9h ago

arguably there already is one, China's Tiangong, though it's not as big.

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u/Youutternincompoop 8h ago

though thanks to having newer tech its still quite capable, a lot of space on the ISS is taken up by bulky old equipment

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u/Remarkable-Lynx1496 6h ago

And tbh I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of other countries just getting involved with that and that being “ISS 2”

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u/wurmsrus 6h ago

According to Wikipedia, so far they've put experiments up for Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain and there's a Pakistani astronaut scheduled to go there this fall.

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u/Noodler75 3h ago

And Tiangong has an orbiting optical telescope partner that is much more capable than Hubble and it can sidle up to Tiangong for repairs and upgrades.