NASA and Roscosmos are working to fix an air leak in the Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced during a meeting of the Committee on Space Exploration and Manned Flights of the NASA Advisory Council, said the director of the American space agency for the ISS program, Robin Gates, Interfax reports.

“In the worst case scenario, we can permanently isolate this module,” she said.

The head of the press service of the state corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Strugovets, told Izvestia that Russian cosmonauts had discovered the alleged place of an air leak and that all the necessary means of eliminating leaks would be delivered on the nearest Progress cargo ship.

A small air leak on the ISS occurred in September 2019. In August-September 2020, the crew closed the hatches in the station modules twice to check their tightness. It turned out that the leak was located in the intermediate chamber of the Russian Zvezda module.

To find out the reasons for what happened, Russia and the United States created a joint working group.

Earlier, the press service of Roscosmos stated that cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, who are now at the International Space Station, found the possible last leak in the intermediate chamber of the Zvezda module on the ISS.

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