July 4, 2014
Categories: ESA, ISS, MCC, NASA, Roscosmos, Space
ISS Damaged by Space Debris

Space debris damaged ISS refrigeration system placed on cross truss of American segment.

The cosmonauts made shots of the ISS outer surface for  ground-based services to thoroughly analyze it.

There is no ammonia leakage detected at the present time. The cosmonauts are out of danger, – MCC reports.

At the present time the ISS crew comprises  Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev, Maksim Surayes ( Roscosmos), American astronauts Steven Swanson and Reid Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst (ESA)

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