Why can’t NASA find the source of the ISS air leak?

[Mike Wehner]

• NASA and Russia's Roscosmos still haven't figured out where the International Space Station is leaking.
• It's possible the leak is present in one of the modules where the crew took refuge while the rest of the spacecraft was being monitored for the leak.
• The leak is minor and NASA says it doesn't pose a risk to the crew.

Hey, so, remember back in August when the astronauts aboard the ISS were confined to the Russian segment of the spacecraft because it was leaking air? The idea was to monitor the pressures in the sealed modules so that NASA could isolate the problem. A week after that took place, NASA was seemingly no closer to finding the source of the leak.

Now, over a month later, NASA is still trying to find which part of the space station is leaking air into space. It's not a big leak, so it's not an emergency, but it sure would be nice to know where the hole is so that it can be repaired.

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