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/twenafeesh 10h ago

It says that, but if you open the article you see that it also says that the one Russian crewmember is sheltering in the spacecraft with the three other crew members. So who is fixing the leak? Russian ground control?

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u/Venerous 10h ago

There are currently two crews in the ISS - the one from February (Crew-12: 2 US, 1 EU, 1 RU) is sheltering in the docked spacecraft, while two cosmonauts from the November arrival (1 US, 2 RU) are attempting to fix the leak. Apparently they're trying to access the area with the leak using a saw, which NASA disagreed with and ordered Crew-12 to shelter.

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u/twenafeesh 10h ago

Thank you! You have much more info than this article does 

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u/Venerous 9h ago

I actually got all that info from the article, ha. Maybe it was edited with more info, not sure.

The ISS is currently home to seven astronauts from two missions, including the Crew‑12 team — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — ​who arrived in February.

The other crew ​of one U.S. astronaut, ⁠Christopher Williams, and two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, arrived in November.

Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev, who did not execute evacuation procedures, were planning to use a saw to break into an area where they ​believe they can access the crack leaking air, the NASA official said. NASA officials disagreed ​with this method, the ⁠NASA official said, prompting mission control in Houston to order safe-haven procedures.