Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, under command of Sunita Williams, quickly took safety measures after detecting an unusual odor from a visiting Russian spacecraft.
The smell, along with the “drip”, observed by the crew, probably originated from the escape of contents inside the “(Russian)”. Progress spacecraft,” explained Kelly O. Humphries, NASA news chief at Johnson Space Center. He confirmed there was “no concern for the crew.”
The Progress 90 capsule arrived at the ISS on November 21, carrying about three tons of supplies, including food, fuel and equipment. Although the spacecraft runs on highly toxic propellants such as asymmetric-dimethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, NASA confirmed that the issue was not related to the fuel.
After this Russian cosmonauts Noticing the smell, they closed the hatch that connects the Poisk module to the rest of the space station, and both NASA and Roscosmos “activated air scrubbing equipment as part of normal procedures, indicating that the smell was likely escaping from materials inside the Progress spacecraft.” ,” according to a NASA statement to CNN.
“The crew reported that the odor dissipated quickly and that cargo transfer operations were proceeding on schedule,” the statement noted, adding that the astronauts were able to access supplies placed on the Progress Vehicle despite the previously reported odor.
