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SCIENCEMay 21 · 16:07 UTCARS TECHNICAEric Berger

Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again

NASA confirmed that the Russian segment of the International Space Station is leaking atmosphere again, reversing hopes that the problem had been resolved in January. Microscopic structural cracks in the PrK module, a transfer tunnel attached to the Zvezda Service Module, have been the persistent source of leaks that engineers from both Roscosmos and NASA have been tracking for over six years.

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