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- An increased amount of atmosphere loss in the International Space Station has prompted astronauts to go into lockdown in one half of the station while they search for the source.
- The leak doesn't pose a danger to the residents aboard the ISS, NASA says.
- The various ISS modules will be sealed off while NASA measures the pressure in each area to pinpoint the source of the leak.
When you're living in a huge laboratory that orbits Earth at a speed of roughly five miles per second, ensuring that it doesn't leak your breathable air into the vacuum of space is a high priority. Unfortunately, something seems to be amiss right now with the International Space Station, and the crew and their support teams on the ground are going to spend the weekend trying to figure out what's wrong.
As NASA explains in a new blog post, an unexpected leak seems to have reared its ugly head, and they're not quite sure which area of the large laboratory it is located in. So, in order to help narrow things down, the ISS is going into a sort of lockdown mode, with the crew isolated to one segment of the ISS while the various other modules are sealed shut.
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The ISS has sprung another leak, NASA says originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 18:26:25 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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