ISS crew briefly takes shelter during air leak repairs in Russian module

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) briefly sheltered inside a docked SpaceX Dragon during air-leak repairs in the Russian Zvezda service module. The precautionary move, described as prudent, involved four crew members—three Americans and one European Space Agency astronaut—taking shelter in Dragon while the Russian crew conducted a larger repair operation on a PrK transfer tunnel leak. The shelter ended once repairs were paused for additional measurements, allowing the crew to reassume normal operations. Expedition 74 comprises seven astronauts, including NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway and ESA’s Sophie Adenot with Roscosmos’s Andrey Fedyaev, with Crew-12 due to depart in September ahead of Crew-13.