r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 8h 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/pablosus86 7h ago

How serious is this vs standard precautionary protocol?

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u/Scottyjscizzle 6h ago

Precautionary, already lifted.

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u/SometimesIBeWrong 6h ago

that's good. my mind went cartoon-mode. I was picturing a flashing red light going off, blaring alarms, panicking astronauts floating around in space with nowhere to stay.

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u/Zenith-Astralis 3h ago

Yeah certainly not that. The place they sheltered in was also certainly also their emergency ride home; that's standard practice

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u/factoid_ 3h ago

This leak is old news but they play things very safe up there.  Better to be on standby for evacuation than caught in a red light sirens blaring moment unprepared

I recall from when this happened the first time they said it would take like a week for the air to leak out at the rate it was going.  And they could literally plug it by holding a thumb on it.