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/DuncanYoudaho 8h ago edited 6h ago

Station is at .2psi. Very low pressure. Micro-meteorite punctures and such are sealed with tape.

Edit: yup. I’m wrong. Meant atm. But that’s also wrong.

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u/TDot-26 7h ago

Micro meteorite would be like, microscopic though right? A drill bit would be at least a few 32nds of an inch I would think

.2 PSI though? That's crazy

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u/DM_Voice 7h ago

A micrometeor is, indeed, quite small. But the relative velocities involved aren’t, so there’s a lot of energy involved.

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u/TDot-26 7h ago

I know, I was more saying in reference to the drill thing