The time when SpaceX crew had to depend on ‘diapers’ due to toilet leak
6 days, 6 hours ago

The time when SpaceX crew had to depend on ‘diapers’ due to toilet leak

Hindustan Times  

As NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth on SpaceX's ‘Dragon’ capsule, the belated journey brings back memories from three years ago, when a crew leaving the International Space Station had to use diapers due to a broken toilet on their capsule belonging to Elon Musk's company. NASA earlier on Tuesday shared an update on their return and said that the SpaceX Crew-9 mission had successfully undocked from the International Space Station, undertaking its return journey to Earth. SpaceX mission from 2021 Back in November 2021, present along with NASA's Megan McArthur was French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who told reporters that the past six months had been intense. The SpaceX capsule, carrying NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, had been launched to the space station on April 23, 2021.

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Boeing sent two astronauts into space. Now It needs to get them home.
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Boeing sent two astronauts into space. Now It needs to get them home.

Live Mint  

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Astronauts home in on International Space Station air leak
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Astronauts home in on International Space Station air leak

CNN  

CNN — Astronauts on the International Space Station have successfully narrowed down the source of a small air leak that had been growing in size. “The size of the leak identified overnight has since been attributed to a temporary temperature change aboard the station with the overall rate of leak remaining unchanged,” NASA said in a blog post Tuesday. While …

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