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

Photo caption: The International Space Station photographed from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010. Photo credit: NASA. Article by Mark Kaufman. Mashable – November 16, 2024. 

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, […]

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