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 by Ben Hooper Washington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020
The crew of the International Space Station plugged a longstanding air leak after locating the source with the help of a tea bag. Russian space agency Roscosmos said the station had been experiencing a mysterious air leak since September 2019, but the leak was minor enough that fixing it wasn't considered a priority until the leak rate increased in August. Roscosmos said the source of the leak was finally found when cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin broke open a tea bag, allowing leaves to float free in the transfer chamber of the Zvezda Service Module area of the station. The crew sealed off the area and monitored the leaves on video cameras, noting that the tiny tea fragments were floating toward a scratch in the wall that was then confirmed to be the source of the leak. The leak was patched Monday using Kapton tape. Source: United Press International
Thomas prepares for Time in space Houston TX (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet trains for the Time experiment at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his Alpha mission to the International Space Station in 2021. This European experiment on the International Space Station investigates the hypothesis that time subjectively speeds up in microgravity and was first run in space in 2017. Whether an activity takes seconds or hours depends on your point of view. For astronauts living off-planet and experiencing roughly 16 sunrises a ... read more
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