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The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the 14th crew of the space station and the first space tourist Anusha Ansari docked safely this morning at the space station.
The space station is waiting for the next tourist and crew * The leak from the oxygen generator that caused the panic has been fixed
American astronaut Jeffrey Williams packs air samples taken during the crisis on the International Space Station in which the astronauts had to wear protective suits
Space Station 13 crew members Pavel Vinogradov, Jeffrey Williams and Thomas Reiter were well rested tonight after launching the Progress resupply spacecraft with debris from the space station aboard to burn up in the atmosphere to make way for the Soyuz to dock with the station's two 14th crew members and a human space tourist Ansari. Yesterday (18/9/06) they had a terrifying experience.
"We had a leak of some kind, we still don't understand its origin, but we discovered that it was a leak of potassium hydroxide (KOH), the oxygen key of the "electron" device that separates water into hydrogen and separates them through the electrolysis process," said a NASA spokesperson in an interview with Spice .get up. According to him, this liquid is classified as a pungent substance - toxic level 2, that is, a substance that only causes an uncomfortable feeling and a pungent smell, but does not endanger the astronauts at all.
Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to wear protective suits after reporting the smell of fuel fumes. The initial report of smoke on the space station was incorrect, but the situation was unclear. This is what NASA spokesman Kelly Humphreys said from the agency's center in Houston. "The crew was asked to wear protective suits," Humphreys said. He said that the alarm was triggered by an "unusual smell". As mentioned, the source of the leak was located near the oxygen generator made in Russia, called Electron.
NASA and the Russian space agency deny that at any stage of the crisis, they considered ordering the astronauts to evacuate the station in the Soyuz spacecraft docked for that purpose in one of its ports.
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