Key facts
- Five astronauts took shelter in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft due to an air leak on the ISS.
- NASA later reversed the order for astronauts to take shelter.
- The leak occurred on the Russian segment of the ISS.
- Four astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-12 mission and one from Expedition 74 were involved.
NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter and prepare for possible evacuation on Friday as a Russian crew tried to fix a leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory. NASA reversed that order roughly two hours later and told the astronauts they could return to the station. Four astronauts on NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission took shelter in the Dragon spacecraft, along with Chris Williams, a NASA astronaut on the space station's Expedition 74 team. Jessica Meir is commander of NASA's Dragon spacecraft for the SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Jack Hathaway is the pilot for Dragon. Sophie Adenot is a European Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist. Andrey Fedyaev is a Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist, on his second long-duration stay. The members of the Expedition 74 crew include Chris Williams, flight engineer; Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, commander; and Sergei Mikaev, flight engineer.