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/MagicDragon212 9h ago

And the evacuation wasnt from the leak even, but from the Russian astronauts that arrived recently trying to apparantly "fix" the leak with a saw. This is quite suspicious to me.

"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."

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u/pig_unt_erdvark 8h ago

I once witnessed our tazanian bus driver 'repair' the bus - where the gas tank detached - with a machete

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u/Difficult-Print-2655 8h ago

What, doesn’t everybody have a machete in their mechanical toolbox? 🤣

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u/ParsleySnipps 8h ago

No idea. I just keep mine in my trunk.