“Following the new leak, Roscosmos has decided to proceed with a more extensive repair operation on Friday, June 5,” NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens wrote on Twitter.
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After about 90 minutes, the communications officer at Mission Control in Houston told the crew they could reopen the hatch and re-enter the space station. The specific repair work that caused NASA to issue the shelter in place order had stopped. Mission Control told the crew, “Our Russian colleagues have chosen to perform measurements only today. So, with that, we are comfortable retreating to the safe haven configuration.”
“We don’t get help from our counterparts?” Crew-12 commander Jessica Meyer asked mission control. “Confirm,” Mission Control replied.
they are equivalent-Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev—Crews were working in the leak area at the opposite end of the station, about 200 feet away from Dragon.
Stevens soon posted an update on X, writing that Roscosmos had “paused” “structural repair efforts” inside the PRK to take more measurements and assess the data. “We look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to addressing the leak,” Stevens said.
Arce asked two NASA spokesmen for details about the proposed leak repair and why the agency decided the repair was so risky that American crew members were ordered into Crew Dragon lifeboats. He had not answered these questions at the time of this publication, but we will add any information we get to this story.
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