An astronaut assesses the risk of air leaks from the International Space Station

Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov announced that the discovery of a new place for air leakage from the International Space Station does not pose a great danger to the station and its people.

“There is no problem on board the International Space Station. And the work is going on normally,” Vinogradov said, in an interview with the Russian Novosti news agency.

According to him, work has been under way for a long time to stop the air leakage. “We have been flying for a year and a half, and everything is fine,” he said.

It is reported that the experts of the Russian Center for Space Flight Management have asked the station crew to help them find a new place for the air leakage from the Russian “Zvezda” unit on the International Space Station, because the gas reserves needed to compensate for the air leak are about to run out.

In October, the astronauts discovered the location of the air leak in the Russian “Zvezda” unit, and the crack that leaked the air was temporarily repaired. But Sergey Krikalf, who was then executive director of the manned spaceflight programs at Ross Cosmos, announced the possibility of another place to leak air.

For his part, expert Sergey Rijikov said, “We practically do not know the other place from which the air is leaking, and we are losing gas reserves. Therefore, this problem must be solved as quickly as possible.” And the astronauts were asked to completely isolate the middle room at all times, in order to reduce air leakage. “

Source: Novosti

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