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From: Savant11/16/2024 11:49:03 AM
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The space station is leaking. Why it hasn't imperiled the mission.

Some of the main modules of the International Space Station are nearly a quarter-century old. "That's considered classic for a car," said Bennett Maruca, an astronomer and physicist at the University of Delaware.

So it's little surprise one of the earliest chambers, attached in 2000, has sprung a problematic leak. The leak is in Russia's Zvezda service module, an area connecting the module to a docking port, and it was first detected five years ago. But the rate of leakage has increased in 2024, and in April, NASA revealed it had reached the highest level yet, at three times the leakage observed in 2019. In a recent Inspector General's report, the space agency labeled these cracks and leaks a "top safety risk."

The space station is leaking. Why it hasn't imperiled the mission.
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