“20 years is a record for all space stations.
We see now that something is changing, something requires more (attention).
If we go back to the leak, the case is already starting to give scratches, cracks somewhere, ”Interfax quotes him as saying.
At the same time, he noted that for the ISS "20 years is not the limit, and you can work further, and you can cope with it."
Earlier it was reported that the cosmonauts managed to find the place of the air leak on the ISS, it was in the Russian module "Zvezda".
To date, the location of the air leak, which was found thanks to the tea bags, has been isolated with temporary means.