Five ISS astronauts shelter in SpaceX capsule as Russian cosmonauts repair air leak

Five of seven International Space Station crew members were directed to shelter inside the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" spacecraft as a precaution while two Russian cosmonauts performed urgent repairs on an air leak in the Zvezda service module, Hacker News reported. The shelter-in-place order was triggered after a Russian repair attempt may have worsened the leak, according to bsky. NASA has a clear emergency exit plan involving splitting the crew across two separate spacecraft if the leak worsens, and the affected astronauts include Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, Andrey Fedyaev, and Chris Williams. The situation was resolved without requiring evacuation, and the astronauts have since returned to normal operations aboard the ISS, bsky added.