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Astronauts plug a 2-milimeter hole found on ISS due to micrometeorite

Astronauts plug a 2-milimeter hole found on ISS due to micrometeorite

What would you do if you are in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 400km and you discover a hole causing pressure leakage? You would actually panic because of the numerous space movies where spacecraft explode or crash when there a hole or a crack, etc. A similar situation happened onboard the …

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Audit reports from GAO suggest a gap in U.S' access to the ISS

Audit reports from GAO suggest a gap in U.S’ access to the ISS

As of now, NASA depends on Russia’s space agency Roscosmos to take its astronauts to the ISS ever since its Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. The current contract with Russia’s space agency will expire in November 2019 and what is why, NASA decided to build its own spaceflight launch system with crew module for …

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