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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-space-station-is-leaking-why-it-hasnt-imperiled-the-mission-2/
- Published: 2024-11-17T09:45:04-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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, […] Click here to view original web page at mashable.com Curated by John Wysocki See Full Bio