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The ISS has been leaking air for 5 years, and engineers still don’t know why

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Air leaks are located in the transfer tunnel of the space station's Russian Zvezda service module.

US and Russian officials "don't have a common understanding of what the likely root cause is, or the severity of the consequences of these leaks," said Bob Cabana , a retired NASA astronaut.

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English

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