MOSCOW: A leak of a toxic substance on Wednesday forced astronauts to evacuate the American section of the International Space Station, Russia’s space agency said Wednesday.
The “toxic substance was emitted from a cooling system into the station’s atmosphere” in the US segment of the station, the agency said in a statement.
“At present the American segment has been evacuated and the crew is safely located in the Russian segment,” the statement said. The American segment has been sealed off.
A representative of the Russian mission control centre told Russian news agencies that the substance is ammonia. The accident could also delay …read more
Source: theSun
