Astronauts approaching location of small leak in International Space Station

Astronauts in the International Space Station are getting closer to the location where there has been a leak for some time. It was traced in the Russian Zvezda module of the space station. The station has been leaking air for over a year, but it has never put the astronauts in danger, according to the Russian space agency Roscosmos. the working part of Zvezda. The 20-year-old module is the third oldest on the International Space Station. Zvezda includes systems to keep the astronauts alive, although these are not the only life support systems on board the station. A small leak was discovered a few weeks ago when more air was leaking from the space station than usual, but it was not known where it was, and the US space agency NASA now says that the leak seems to be getting bigger in recent days. Astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner have therefore conducted experiments and collected data in various Russian modules. The American, Japanese and European modules have already been studied previously. The leak itself has still not been found, so no repair can be carried out yet. The leak would have grown but still pose no danger to the astronauts. NASA says the temperature in the station dropped suddenly earlier this week, although the drop in air pressure in the station remained the same. It is not the first time that there has been a leak in the space station. In 2018 it also appeared that air was leaking from the space station. The hole was not in the space station itself, but in a docked Soyuz capsule with which the astronauts had to return to Earth. The cause of that gap is still unknown. A hole in a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS was already found in 2018