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MOSCOW, October 15 / TASS /. Russian cosmonauts tracked a probable air leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with a tea bag, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin said Thursday during a communications session with the Russian Flight Control Center.
The swaying of the tea bag in zero-gravity conditions towards the space station’s overboard air leak was recorded by cameras, the cosmonaut said.
“We believe we have actually identified the likely spill area. We have distributed a tea bag [in the Zvezda module] before closing the transfer chamber, “Ivanishin said.
The movement of the tea bag was recorded, the Russian cosmonaut said.
“We have several photos and videos of the direction of the tea bag’s flight or where it intended to fly and this shows precisely the direction the air is blowing from the possible air leak,” the cosmonaut 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.
Cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov said during a pre-flight press conference on Wednesday that the crew of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-17 will bring additional equipment to the orbital outpost to track the air leak in the Russian module’s transfer compartment. Zvezda is a special sealant.
The manned Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 08:45 Moscow time on October 14, docked at the International Space Station at 11:48 Moscow time on the same day, making a flight super fast for orbital lab within three hours and three minutes.
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