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Fri Jun 5, 2026, 02:26 PM 2 hrs ago

NASA lifts order for International Space Station astronauts to shelter in Dragon spacecraft amid ongoing air leaks

(Yahoo News) Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered to temporarily shelter in place on Friday amid ongoing air leaks on the floating space laboratory.

In a statement posted to X, NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens said that "out of an abundance of caution," all four members of NASA's ​Crew-12 mission — ⁠NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — and NASA astronaut Chris Williams were told to shelter in the Crew Dragon ​spacecraft docked to the ​station ⁠while members of Russia's space agency Roscosmos attempted to fix the leaks.

About 90 minutes later, Stevens said that Roscosmos had "paused" its structural repair efforts, and NASA instructed the crew members inside the Dragon spacecraft to "end the safe haven procedures and return to planned operations aboard the International Space Station."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nasa-lifts-order-for-international-space-station-astronauts-to-shelter-in-dragon-spacecraft-amid-ongoing-air-leaks-151226281.html

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