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The saga of the International Space Station air leak took a worrying turn Friday

Ars Technica · Jun 5, 2026, 7:03 PM · Also reported by 3 other sources

Five of the seven crew members on the International Space Station briefly sought refuge inside a Space X return capsule Friday morning as two Russian cosmonauts worked on an air leak on the other end of the complex. NASA ordered US astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev into Space X's Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft around 9 am EST (14:00 UTC) on Friday. The foursome launched aboard the Space X crew capsule on the Crew-12 mission in February, and the ship serves as their lifeboat until the crew's scheduled return to Earth in September. NASA astronaut Chris Williams, who flew to the station in a Russian Soyuz ferry ship, joined the Crew-12 astronauts inside the Dragon spacecraft.Read full article Comments

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