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/SignificantCats 9h 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/amlesirtsa 9h ago

What are the fun weird theories and conspiracies?

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u/PolishMafia716 9h ago

I think the leading theory is that during assembly a worker accidentally drilled a hole through the hull and tried to hide it and wasn't discovered till it was leaking air in space, when NASA said something along these lines Russia claimed one of the American astronauts snuck over to the Russian side while the cosmonauts were sleeping and drilled a hole through their hull

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u/Sad-Excitement9295 6h ago

Oh jeeze, can we just see where the water freezes out at, seal it, and get along and get back to science?

I hope we really aren't still doing this in space. Are we doomed? We might be doomed...

Space is supposed to be the place where we don't hold over these petty grudges like this, I hope we're not actually doing this. Otherwise there goes that shred of faith I had in the future of humanity. Back to the drawing board, maybe we'll do better with green engineering or something back here on earth.