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NASA has reversed an evacuation order on the International Space Station. Crew members were briefly told to move inside a docked spacecraft due to concerns about two small air leaks in the Russian segment of the space station
>> station Houston on space to ground two for all USOS crew members. need you to execute uh procedure EMR procedure three decimal four crew dragon establish safe haven and if we need to suit up we will do that uh once uh we're inside the dragon we will not suit up prior
>> Houston station on two we copy all three decimal four uh no suit up required we will put that in work
>> all right I want to bring in retired NASA astronaut Scott Perzinski a veteran of five space shuttle flights in seven
spacew walks. Boy, please translate what that meant. If I heard that message and I was in space, I think I'd freak out.
But can you tell us what these leaks mean and what that message meant?
>> Well, I think you heard uh the calmness in the the crew's voice there, Juliet.
But
>> uh they they are trained for this. Uh um
there are three primary contingencies that we really concern ourselves with.
um toxic atmosphere. If there were leakage of ammonia inside of the habitable volume of the uh the space station, that's a really bad day. If there's a fire, and then the third thing is a leak. And of course, the home that this crew is living in has been in space for 27 years now.
U and so, you know, it's not unexpected to have uh some degree of leak. And in fact, there has been, you know, for for quite some time
about a, as I understand it, about a a pound of air per day, uh, is just slowly leaking out of the station. It may have ramped up a little bit more recently.
So, in an abundance of caution, um, as some procedures to kind of isolate this leak in the Zvezda module of the u the space station, they they sent the, uh, US segment crew back to the Dragon capsule while these things were being looked into. Um, but uh they've gotten all clear.
Now,
>> I'm so glad we have you on because you have quite the background to know about this.
We'd be remiss to not mention the historic high stakes um walk that you did, spacew walk that you pulled off almost 20 years ago.
Okay. So, we have the video of your spacew walk from 2007.
The space station's solar array. It got ripped while it was being deployed, putting the station's power supply in jeopardy. But you managed to fix it.
Let's listen in to that video first.
>> I got the first half in.
Second half in.
>> Well, then all right.
>> Cool under pressure. Scott, can you walk us through why this repair was so challenging and unprecedented for a NASA astronaut to pull off, I might add?
Well, thank you for the opportunity to relive this wonderful moment in my life
and in the the lives of our crew. Uh it wasn't something that I did alone. It was a culmination of an enormous team effort on the ground and then of course uh on orbit, our combined space station STS120 space shuttle crew. But uh I guess I was at the the pointy end of the spear that day uh along with my uh spacew walking counterpart Doug Wheelock and and we were tasked with uh basically stitching a solar panel back to good health.
Um there had been a a frayed guide wire that had ripped the solar panel apart. Uh and basically it was a limp noodle out there and we were either going to have to find a way to fix it uh as a team or throw away a billion dollar national asset.
national asset. And uh what I love about NASA is its capacity to take these, you know, incredibly daunting challenges and find ways to uh to address the problem.
And and so the the spacew walk was incredibly successful. Uh the repairs that uh our crew did that day are still up there um supporting the International Space Station.
Um but yeah, it was uh it was quite the uh the tense time because I I wasn't able to have any direct contact with the solar panel out of fear that electricity could arc from the uh the solar panel into the metal parts of my spacuit and then inside my
um my spacuit itself which is filled with pressurized oxygen. So that could have resulted in some really bad things.
>> Oh my goodness. You must have these things that flashbacks of wow that could have been really bad but it went it went without a flaw there. But let's move on.
They certainly picked the right person for that mission and that's what goes into the astronauts assigned to these missions like the Aremis um three test mission.
Do we know who could be assigned? How do you find out who's on that list?
>> It's ultra top secret. Uh in fact, I I had um uh lunch with a a friend last week who's still in the astronaut uh program. I won't name him, but I was I was drilling him for any insights that he might have. and uh I think he had
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