Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary

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A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's archetypal astronauts successful decades has been delayed indefinitely due to the fact that of leak concerns astatine the International Space Station

ByMARCIA DUNN AP aerospace writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s archetypal astronauts successful decades has been delayed indefinitely due to the fact that of leak concerns astatine the International Space Station.

NASA said Thursday that it wants to show the compartment unit connected the Russian broadside of the orbiting laboratory earlier accepting visitors. Officials stressed that the 7 astronauts presently astatine the abstraction presumption are harmless and that different operations up determination aren't affected.

SpaceX was expected to motorboat 4 backstage astronauts this week connected a 14-day abstraction presumption mission, but atrocious upwind and SpaceX rocket occupation delayed the flight. Then the presumption leak contented cropped up.

The Russian Space Agency has been dealing with a compartment unit leak astatine the station, and caller repairs resulted successful what NASA calls “a caller unit signature.” Additional details were not instantly available.

The 3 Russians aboard the abstraction presumption precocious inspected the wrong walls of the aging Zvezda work module, which was launched successful 2000. They sealed immoderate areas and measured the existent leak rate.

“Following this effort, the conception present is holding pressure,” NASA said successful an online update.

The backstage mission's hold provides other clip for NASA and the Russian Space Agency “to measure the situation” and find whether much repairs are needed.

The chartered formation was arranged by the Houston institution Axiom Space, and was to beryllium Axiom's 4th travel to the abstraction presumption with paying customers since 2022.

“This is the close happening to do,” Axiom Space's enforcement president Kam Ghaffarian said successful a written statement. “We volition proceed to enactment with each of our partners to finalize a caller motorboat date.”

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