Russian Oxygen Generator On ISS Fails

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips, the Expedition 11 crew on the ISS, will start relying on Solid Fuel Oxygen Generation canisters this week, following the hard failure of the station's Russian-built Elektron oxygen generator. There are 84 of the so-called "candles" on board...

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