After a strange odor emanating from a visiting Russian aircraft, astronauts aboard the International Space Station quickly implemented safety procedures.
The smell, accompanied by “droplets” observed by the crew, likely originated from “outgassing from materials inside the ( Russian ) Progress spacecraft”, explained Kelly O Humphries, Nasa’s news chief at the Johnson Space Centre. He stated that the crew had no problems.
The Progress 90 capsules arrived at the ISS on November 21, delivering almost three tonnes of resources, including food, gas, and products. Nasa confirmed that the fuel-related issue was related, despite the fact that the spacecraft uses highly poisonous propellants like unsymmetric-dimethylhydrazine and iron tetroxide.
According to a statement from NASA to CNN, the Russian cosmonauts shut down the nest that connects the Poisk component to the rest of the room stop after they noticed the smell. Both Nasa and Roscosmos “activated weather scrubbing equipment as part of normal procedures, indicating that the odor was good being caused by materials inside the Progress spacecraft.”
Despite the earlier reported odor, the crew reported that the odor vanished swiftly and cargo transfer operations were moving on schedule, according to the statement.
