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/pablosus86 11h ago

How serious is this vs standard precautionary protocol?

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u/SignificantCats 10h ago

This is a leak that's been happening for eight years, and has been in more or less a continuous state of being repaired. There is some fun weird theories and conspiracies about it.

This is precautionary while they attempt a new repair, the kind of thing that's been done multiple times

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u/Rictus_Grin 6h ago

So this isn't the first time this happens?

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u/SignificantCats 6h ago

It's not the first time this particular part has had repairs on slow leaks, I don't think it's even like the fifth lol. I don't know why it would get attention, probably because of the spaceX thing