The movements of the tea bag in the module area were documented by astronauts in photographs and videos. Russia’s Space Flight Control Center (CUP) subsequently suggested to the ISS crew that they repaint the intended escape site.
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Sergei Krikalyov, executive director of the Russian space agency’s manned programs, Roskosmos, said in September that more than the normative amount of air was leaking from the Zvezda module and that additional oxygen would probably need to be delivered to the orbital complex. The life and health of the crew are not endangered.
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Fresh forces
Before the flight of the Soyuz MS-17, which arrived at the station on Wednesday, cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov said at a press conference that the Soyuz crew would bring the equipment needed to identify the location of the leak and special sealing material, TASS recalls.
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The Soyuz MS-17, which included NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, arrived at the orbital complex after a record-breaking short flight from Earth that lasted only three hours and three minutes. The new trio is to stay on the ISS for half a year, while the current crew, which consists of Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and American astronaut Christopher Cassidy, is still on its way back to Earth this month.
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