US Russian officials disagree over International Space Station leak severity

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2024

Officials with NASA are at odds with their counterparts at the Russian space agency Roscosmos over the severity of a leak aboard the International Space Station. The fear among NASA officials is that an existing air leak in a Russian-controlled section of the ISS could eventually result in a "catastrophic failure." Both agencies have known about the leak since 2019, but disagree over the risk it poses to the orbiting laboratory, which is divided into separate but connected Russian and Am ... read more