Friday, May 10, 2013

Failure of the space station. Do astronauts successfully repair? - Official

Two U.S. astronauts will tomorrow attempt to repair defects on the International Space Station, this purpose will come to an unplanned walk in space, and their task is to find the leak of ammonia. The crew sent to Earth, the gas evaporates more intensively. Interfax news agency reports citing a U.S. source control, and it is not known how long the whole operation.

The fact that the cooling system of one of the solar power station ammonia evaporates, NASA announced last night. The astronauts noticed a small white puffs coming out of one of the sections. For the monitoring of the leak started outside the camera.
NASA stressed that the life and health of astronauts working on the station is at risk. Ammonia is used for power station cooling systems. Each of the segments of the solar power the International Space Station has its own cooling panel.

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