NASA orders astronauts to take shelter after new leak aboard ISS

By Euronews

NASA is reported to have instructed the astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) to be ready to evacuate because of “air leaks.”

International media, including the Daily Mail, are reporting the story. The US space agency is said to have told the crew to prepare for a possible evacuation. The issue concerns a leak in a Russian module of the station, which has been experiencing similar problems since 2019.

Bethany Stevens, a NASA press officer, said in a statement published on X that “the transfer tunnel of the Zvezda service module, known as the PrK, has long had cracks and leaks, which Roscosmos has contained as far as possible up to now.

Following new leaks, Roscosmos decided to carry out more extensive repair work on Friday 5 June. As a precautionary measure, NASA ordered the four members of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission and American astronaut Chris Williams to adopt maximum safety procedures inside the Dragon spacecraft for the entire duration of the operations.