NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment
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NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment
Russia's space agency Roscosmos intended to cut into part of the International Space Station (ISS) to determine the extent of leaks in the aging structure, according to a space agency source. The Register was told that discussions involved a handsaw . Other reports have suggested cosmonauts planned to deploy a drill. Whatever tool was involved, the plan made NASA sufficiently alarmed that the agency sent its astronauts scurrying into the relativ…
A rapid air loss on the ISS recently caused a tangible dispute between NASA and Roskosmos. Because risky repairs from the Russian side threatened, American astronauts even fled to a SpaceX spaceship. (Read more)
On June 5, the astronauts of the ISS — including the French woman Sophie Adenot — were encircled in an emergency in their rescue capsule. If one thought of a simple technical incident, new revelations show strong tensions between NASA and Roscosmos. The possibility of an evacuation from the Space Station
The leak has been sealed and the astronauts are safe, but it does not change the bottom of the problem: the two agencies that share the ISS have never managed to agree on its origin.
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