Balky Mir airlock hatch starts leaking again
An airlock hatch on Russia's Mir orbital station has started leaking slowly again, just two days after spacewalking cosmonauts thought they had fixed the problem, Mission Control Center-Moscow reported. The Kvant-2 airlock hatch, which opens outward to the vacuum of space, had held partial pressure...
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