The space station air leak mystery just got even weirder

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  • The International Space Station sprung a leak many weeks ago and NASA has yet to find out exactly where it is.
  • The leak appeared to get worse on Monday night, but NASA now says that may have been due to a temperature change.
  • The crew has isolated it to one module, but haven't found the source of the leak yet.

It's now been several weeks since NASA revealed that it had detected an air leak aboard the International Space Station. Leaking breathable air into space when you're orbiting Earth is obviously not ideal, so NASA wanted to trace the source of the leak. After a good bit of investigation, it came up empty-handed, but things just got even worse.

According to NASA, astronauts aboard the space station were awoken on Monday night by engineers on the ground that detected the leak getting bigger. It prompted additional testing of the modules that make up the space station and now it seems NASA has finally narrowed things down a bit.

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