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Toxic leak at International Space Station

Published: 14 Jan 2015 - 03:24 pm | Last Updated: 17 Jan 2022 - 11:42 pm

 

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.

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. The crew was evacuated from the American sector and is now "safely located in the Russian segment," it added.

AFP