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MOSCOW, October 15 / TASS /. Air could escape from the International Space Station (ISS) through a rift in the intersection compartment of the Russian module Zvezda, cosmonaut Ivan Vagner told the Russian Flight Control Center, according to a live broadcast on the NASA website Thursday.
“We sent the photo and video of the ‘scratch’,” said the cosmonaut.
The Flight Control Center has asked the crew to continue monitoring the fracture.
The ISS crew reported to the Flight Control Center Thursday morning that the possible air leak had been identified with the help of a tea bag. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos told TASS that the Flight Control Center would soon be giving the crew instructions on how to hold controls to make sure the cosmonauts had indeed found the location of the air leak. Based on the work done, it will be possible to locate the area of the air leak, he said.
A source told TASS in August that the Russian-American space station crew were working to track down an air leak aboard the orbital outpost. As the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos later told TASS, the cosmonauts had come to the conclusion that the air leak was in the Russian Zvezda module but posed no threat to the life and health of the crew.
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