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FACTBOX: Who is aboard the International Space Station during the air leak?

NASA briefly ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to shelter in a SpaceX Dragon capsule as Russian crews investigated an air leak in the station's Russian segment. The precautionary alert was lifted after about two hours, allowing normal operations to resume.

Reuters

June 06, 2026

FACTBOX: Who is aboard the International Space Station during the air leak?

FILE PHOTO: NASA’s Crew-12 members, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot walk out of the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center before transport to Launch Complex 40, ahead of their launch to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 13, 2026. 

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NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter and prepare for possible evacuation for on Friday as a Russian crew tried to fix a leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory.


NASA reversed that order roughly two hours later and told the astronauts they could return to the station. Four astronauts on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission took shelter in the Dragon spacecraft, along with Chris Williams, a NASA astronaut on the space station's Expedition 74 team. They are:


JESSICA MEIR, SPACECRAFT COMMANDER


American. Meir is commander of NASA’s Dragon spacecraft for the SpaceX Crew-12 mission. The Caribou, Maine, native was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. This is her second flight to space.


JACK HATHAWAY, SPACECRAFT PILOT


American. NASA astronaut Hathaway is the pilot for Dragon. A U.S. Navy commander from South Windsor, Connecticut, this is his first space flight.


SOPHIE ADENOT, MISSION SPECIALIST


French. A European Space Agency astronaut, Adenot was selected as an astronaut in 2022 after having earned an engineering degree in Toulouse, France, and served as a helicopter pilot and design engineer.


ANDREY FEDYAEV, MISSION SPECIALIST


Russian. A Roscosmos cosmonaut, this is his second long-duration stay. He spent 186 days in orbit as an Expedition 69 flight engineer in 2023.


The members of the Expedition 74 crew, which began December 8 and was due to end this summer are:


CHRIS WILLIAMS, FLIGHT ENGINEER


American. A NASA astronaut and flight engineer for Expedition 74.


SERGEY KUD-SVERCHKOV, COMMANDER


Russian. The Roscosmos cosmonaut is commander of the Expedition 74 crew.


SERGEI MIKAEV, FLIGHT ENGINEER


Russian. The cosmonaut is a flight engineer for Expedition 74.


-Reporting by Doina Chiacu; editing by Scott Malone and Nick Zieminski/Reuters

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