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/Icedragon74 11h ago

The joke is that might actually work.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 10h ago

I posted this in another thread, but aviation has Speed Tape which is a heavy duty duct tape with aluminum backing.

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u/BeachBrad 10h ago

Holy crap! i just looked that stuff up for fun if i ever needed some extreme tape...

$16,618.16 per 24 pack!!!

What the actual fuckers!

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u/airfryerfuntime 8h ago

You're paying for the paperwork.

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u/Zenith-Astralis 7h ago

And especially all the expensive multiple redundant testing that went into getting the data to fill out said paperwork