NASA spoke about the worst-case scenario for the “leaking” Russian “Zvezda”
NASA: the “leaking” chamber of the Russian Zvezda module on the ISS may be blocked In the worst case, the “leaking” intermediate chamber of the service module The “star” of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) will have to be blocked, which will lead to the loss of access to the docking port for the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft, SpaceNews reports a comment by NASA Assistant Administrator for Space Operations Katie Luders, included in the report of the Office of the General NASA inspector. According to the document, the cracks are in the “low stress part”, which is a major concern. “In particular, based on the models and dynamic loads of the design mission that NASA used to characterize the structure, cracks should not have occurred,” said the Office of the Inspector General of NASA. According to Luders, the US space agency and Roscosmos continues to monitor