NASA ordered crew members aboard the International Space Station to take shelter in their docked spacecraft and get ready for a possible emergency departure on Friday while Russian personnel work to repair a deteriorating air leak in the Russian section of the space laboratory.
The four crew members from NASA’s Crew-12 mission currently stationed on the ISS — including two American astronauts, one French astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut — received instructions from NASA mission control at 9:04 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday to board their Crew Dragon vehicle attached to the station and put on their spacesuits as a precautionary measure in case the air leak becomes severe enough to require an emergency departure, according to a NASA official.
