LOSS OF CABIN PRESSURE

摘要

A Soyuz capsule returning to Earth earlier this year suffered a partial loss of pressurization during descent, but did not endanger the crew. The incident took place during the deployment of the main parachute on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in April, when a buckle in the parachute system struck a welding seam on the spacecraft. Thomas Stafford, chairman of NASA's ISS Advisory Committee, said at a committee meeting last week that while some air escaped the capsule as a result, the crew was in pressure suits and not threatened by the incident.