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1: ISS: PERIL IN MODULE ZVEZDA. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

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ISS: PERIL IN MODULE ZVEZDA. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:07.3

I'm John Batchel.

0:08.5

Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind the black.

0:10.8

We're going to low Earth orbit with Axiom.

0:13.6

Bob remind me, Axiom, and it's coming to the rescue of ISS.

0:17.5

Is that right?

0:18.1

Good evening to you.

0:19.5

No, it's running away from ISS, John.

0:23.0

I was originally going to talk about how Axioms commercial manned mission to ISS.

0:28.2

They have three passages from Poland, Hungary, and India, and they're charging 70 million per seat,

0:35.2

and that produces them some cash.

0:41.8

That's what I was really going to talk about, but that flight has now been canceled indefinitely,

0:45.9

and it's been canceled definitely not because of any problems with the Falcon 9 rocket or the dragon capsule that SpaceX has.

0:49.4

It's been canceled indefinitely, suspended indefinitely, because of new leaks in the Zvezda module on

0:57.0

ISS.

0:58.0

Yeah.

0:59.0

This is a significant story, and it's of concern, and it's been of concern now for about a year,

1:04.0

but increasingly so.

1:05.0

It appears that the Russians were doing repair work in Vez to try to seal up the leaks and it appears that

1:11.7

they the the current leak rate as they say was holding pressure and then

1:17.2

suddenly they announced no we're not going to do this flight and there seems to

1:21.6

be an increase in leakage in the module and they've been working to seal them

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