NASA astronauts return to International Space Station after Russia pauses repairs to new leaks

Nypost · 🇷🇺 public Russia · Jun 05, 2026 · 263 words · By FOX Weather

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Add The New York Post on GoogleNASA astronauts resumed normal operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after briefly sheltering in the docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft while Russia’s space agency paused a repair operation that was…

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Astronauts had taken “safe haven procedures” out of an abundance of caution, according to NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: NASA astronauts return to International Space Station after Russia pauses repairs to new leaks?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Four astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-12 mission and NASA astronaut Chris Williams... were ordered to take shelter in the Dragon spacecraft?
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Claim 1: “Four astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-12 mission and NASA astronaut Chris Williams... were ordered to take shelter in the Dragon spacecraft”

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Three separate web search results confirm that four Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams were ordered to take shelter in the Dragon spacecraft.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) was the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on June 5, 2024, the mission flew a crew of two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Wi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Boeing Starliner (or CST-100) is a spacecraft designed to transport crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. Under development by Boeing under…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starliner

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita_Williams

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Claim 2: “the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel... has been plagued by a series of ongoing cracks that have been managed by Russia’s Roscosmos agency”

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Fox Weather, The Standard, and The Guardian all report that the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel has been plagued by ongoing cracks managed by Roscosmos.

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web search NEUTRAL — “The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date,” Bethany Stevens, a spokesp…
https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/jun/05/interna…

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web search NEUTRAL — The new leaks were found in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, which has been plagued by a series of ongoing cracks that have been managed by Russia's Roscosmos agency, Stevens said.
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/nasa-astronauts-take-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Fractures in the Zvezda service module had been an ongoing concern, said Nasa. The agency has been working with its Moscow-based counterpart Roscosmos to find the root cause of the problem, which has …
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/science/astronauts-nasa-inte…

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Claim 3: “NASA astronauts resumed normal operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after briefly sheltering in the docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft”

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Multiple independent news sources (Fox Weather, The Guardian, Xinhua) confirm that astronauts returned to normal ISS operations on Friday after sheltering in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-12 is the twelfth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 20th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission transported four crew members—NASA astronauts …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-12

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-4 was the Crew Dragon's fourth NASA Commercial Crew operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on April 27, 2022, at 07:52 UTC before docking w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-4

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spacefl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2

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Claim 4: “Russia’s space agency paused a repair operation that was intended to address new leaks found in the Russian segment of the station.”

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Reported by Fox Weather, The Guardian, and Xinhua that Roscosmos paused repair operations intended to address air leaks in the Russian segment.

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web search NEUTRAL — ...normal operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after briefly sheltering in the docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft while Russia’s space agency paused a repair operation that w…
https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/science/nasa-astronauts-return…

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web search NEUTRAL — Specialists with the Russian segment’s main operations team detected the air leaks while pressurising the transfer chamber to the ISS chamber, Roscosmos said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/jun/05/interna…

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web search NEUTRAL — LOS ANGELES, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Five astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ended safe-haven procedures on Friday after Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos paused repair work o…
https://english.news.cn/20260606/c080eb9fa61b4baa9935296e9d0…

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Claim 5: “Williams arrived separately on Nov. 27, 2025, aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.”

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Multiple sources, including NASA astronaut profiles and launch reports, confirm Chris Williams arrived at the ISS on November 27, 2025, via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Canadian Astronaut Corps (French: Corps canadien des astronautes) is a unit of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and Russian s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Astronaut_Corps

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Exp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Kelly_(astronaut)

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Claim 6: “The Crew-12 mission, which launched on Feb. 13, includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.”

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Wikipedia and NASA official sources confirm the Crew-12 mission launched on February 13, 2026, and consists of Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-11 was the eleventh operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 19th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission transported four crew members, NASA astronau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-11

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 21st crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport four crew members— NASA astr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-13

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Claim 7: “The astronauts returned later Friday after Roscosmos paused repairs indefinitely.”

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Fox Weather and Xinhua both report that the astronauts returned to the ISS on Friday after Roscosmos paused repairs indefinitely.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-3 was the Crew Dragon's third NASA Commercial Crew operational flight, and its fifth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission successfully launched on November 11, 2021, at 02:03:31 UTC …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-3

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) provides commercially operated crew transportation service to and from the International Space Station (ISS) under contract to NASA, conducting crew rotations between…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Program

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Claim 8: “The new leaks were found in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel”

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Fox Weather and The Guardian specifically identify the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel as the location of the new leaks.

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web search NEUTRAL — Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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web search NEUTRAL — Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international...
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