Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Toxic fume alert on the ISS
After watching the ISS last night, I was dismayed to read a New Scientist report of a toxic spill on the ISS. There is a very low key report on the NASA web site at the moment, ("crew detects odd odour"), but apparently the Elektron oxygen generator on the Russian side of the space station has malfunctioned and a small amount of toxic potassium hydroxide may have been released from an oxygen vent. The oxygen generator has been shut down, but there is enough back up oxygen supplies to keep them going.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:10 am 
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