NASA Orders 5 ISS Crew Into Dragon Safe Haven Over Russian Leak Repair

3 articles · Updated · Hackaday · Jun 9

Five ISS crew members were told to shelter in a docked Dragon spacecraft for about 90 minutes while Russian cosmonauts prepared a leak-repair operation on the station.
NASA said the Safe Haven order was triggered not by space debris, but by plans to cut into the walls of the PrK transfer tunnel to address a persistent air leak.
Roscosmos halted the effort after roughly an hour and a half, and NASA then cleared its personnel to leave Dragon and resume normal duties.
Bethany Stevens, a NASA press secretary, said the agency wants a collaborative approach with Roscosmos on future leak repairs; no new timeline or method has been announced.
The episode underscores continuing concern over the long-running PrK leak and unusually high caution by mission control, which had five people sheltering in a four-seat Dragon.