00:00Station Houston on Space to Ground 2 for all USOS crew members need you to execute a procedure, EMER procedure,
00:103.4, Crew Dragon establish safe haven.
00:13And if we need to suit up, we will do that once we're inside the Dragon. We will not suit
00:20up prior.
00:21Houston, Station on 2, we copy all 3.4, no suit up required. We will put that in work.
00:28Well, NASA had an abundance of caution. They always put crew safety first.
00:35And with the operations that the Russian crew were planning to address this leak that has been there for quite
00:41some time,
00:42I think Russia looked at NASA, sorry, looked at those procedures and thought that the safest place for the crew
00:49was in their spacecraft.
00:50Now, those spacecraft, the Dragon capsule in this case, stay attached to the space station at all times, just in
00:57case there ever is an emergency.
00:59If there were to be a fire, if there were to be a toxic atmosphere, something where the crew perhaps
01:04would not want to breathe it in,
01:06they are very well trained to get in the spacecraft as their safe haven.
01:10And it's happened before when we have seen space debris get close to the space station.
01:16At last, uncomfortably close, the crew have got in those capsules as well.
01:22So it was all done out of an abundance of caution.
01:25It looks like Russia then have looked at the work site and decided not to proceed for now.
01:31So the crew have all gone back to their day-to-day operations, which is fantastic news.
01:39But the leak that has been happening in this VESDA module in the Russian part of the space station has
01:44been a very slow leak.
01:46It's been there for some time, but it has got worse recently, not to a point yet where the space
01:52station is compromised.
01:53But clearly, Russia are looking at it and wanting to see if there is something they can do to improve
01:58the situation.
02:02Yeah, the International Space Station, the first module, launched back in 1998.
02:06And the VESDA module, which is what is leaking in 2000, so parts of it are nearly 30 years old,
02:13and it is getting towards the end of its life.
02:15And that is why NASA have, for some years now, been investing in the next generation of space stations.
02:21There are three companies looking to build those, and they are being built as we speak.
02:27And we expect to see that next generation of commercial space stations fly sometime before the end of this decade.
02:34And there will be a transition, and one day the International Space Station will be de-orbited and be no
02:40more.
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02:43And there are three companies, so because there will be a brand new development, a way to get a waterprooftro
02:46over Europe.
02:46And finally, you should think about security runs without hanging on the world.
02:46Do you think that this line of apartment has been built upAfrica with the Project elephant?
02:46But that could be the process that came before us from the end of this decade.
02:47You
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