It will complete its life in the coming years. International Space Station (ISS) still hosts many astronauts and research. New vehicles and astronauts regularly arrived at the station, which was located at an altitude of about 400 km.

After one of these trips, an interesting incident recently occurred. Comes from a Russian cargo vehiclean unexpected scent‘ would have arrived. After this, the astronauts became alarmed.

The smell disappeared in a short time and it was indicated that there was nothing wrong.

*The Progress cargo vehicle en route to the ISS on November 23.

progress The said cargo vehicle was recently launched from Kazakhstan. The vehicle, carrying about 2.5 tons of material and cargo, arrived at the ISS module called Poisk without any problems. However, when Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Aleksandr Gorbunov opened the hatch of the incoming vehicle, with drops of an unknown liquid and an odor they met.

Naturally, such an unexpected situation was immediately taken seriously because it could pose a major risk to the people at the station. The cosmonauts immediately left the area as a precaution and closed Poisk.

The ISS’s air purification and pollution sensors examined the station’s atmosphere. Then air quality is normal They issued a reassuring statement confirming that this was so. NASA also shared on social media that there are no plans for the crew. no problemstated that all operations are continuing as planned.

The statement made on Monday said the smell disappeared within a short time. The smell, “release of gas from materials in the cargo vehicleIt was also one of the explanations that may have caused this. No information was given about the unknown liquid. However, we can guess that there is no problem with that, because Progress’s freight transshipment is still going according to plan without any problems.