Nasa and Russian space agency refuse to reveal ‘preliminary conclusions’ about cause of mysterious leak in International Space Station
Nasa and the Russian space agency have refused to reveal their "preliminary conclusions" on what caused a mysterious leak in the International Space Station.
At the end of August, astronauts on board the ISS found that the floating lab was losing air becuase of a hole in the wall between them and space. Initially, authorities suggested the hole had been caused by space debris – but that conclusion appears to have been largely rejected, amid suggestions that it was in fact done by a human, either on Earth or in space.
Since then, speculation has been rife about how the hole came to have been made and whether it could indicate any more general problems for the crew on board the space station. The issue was found in part of the spacecraft that also includes the capsule that will carry the astronauts back down to Earth.
The mystery has led to conspiracy theories including a fast-spreading and baseless story that Nasa astronauts drilled a hole in the space station to force the evacuation of a sick crew member.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-international-space-station-leak-latest-roscosmos-cause-explained-a8536221.html