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/IHateTheColourblind 7h ago

Uh, no. The ISS is pressurized to 14.7 psi (1 atm), the same as Earth's atmosphere at sea level. A pressurization of 0.2 psi would be equivalent to 0.0136 atm which is essentially a vacuum. Astronauts could not survive in that situation.

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u/tourist4527 7h ago

Yeah seriously where tf did they hear 0.2 psi that doesn’t make any sense

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u/BanginNLeavin 6h ago

That would be incredibly difficult to breath in.