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NASA cites progress in reducing ISS air leak
Top Stories Tamfitronics The International Space Station, photographed in 2021. Credit: NASAWASHINGTON — NASA is playing down concerns raised in a recent report about a long-running air leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station, saying they have recently reduced the rate of the leak.A report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General released Sept. 26 noted that, in June, the ISS program had elevated a leak in a section of the Russian Zvezda module “to the highest level of risk in its risk management system.” NASA uses a system where both the likelihood and severity of a risk is rated on a scale of one to five; the leak rated a five on both.That assessment came after NASA reported that the leak, in a vestibule of the service module known as PrK that...
