The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency issued a statement on August 20 stating that the International Space Station had a slight air leak and three astronauts will find the cause of the air leak this weekend.
NASA said in a statement: “The space agency and its international partners first discovered in September 2019 that the air leakage rate in the cabin was slightly higher than the standard.” American astronaut Chris Cassidy, Russian astronaut Ivan Wagner and Anatoly Ivanishin will close the hatch this weekend and monitor the air pressure to find the source of the leak.
The Russian Space Agency said that the leak "does not pose a danger to station members or the International Space Station."
This is not the first time that the International Space Station has leaked. NASA officials said the air leak is not as serious as the air leak in 2018.
In August 2018, the "Soyuz MS-09" spacecraft docked on the International Space Station leaked. Astronauts found a crack of nearly 2 millimeters in the bulkhead of the spacecraft's orbital module, which was urgently repaired. (Edit Zhou Jing)
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