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Topline A Russian multipurpose module attached to the International Space Station started leaking coolant from a backup cooling system, the Russian space agency said Monday—the third leak in less than a year for the country’s historically dominant space program. Moscow, USSR: Personal appearances in Soviet bloc countries and in London—and now a color … [+] documentary movie featirung “Soviet Hero No.1” major Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first spaceman. He’s seen here in his spacesuit in a scene from the documentary, “First Voyage to the Stars,” which is being screened at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. Photograph filed 7/19/1961 Bettmann Archive Key Facts Flight controllers saw “flakes,” later identified as the coolant, coming from a backup radiator on the Russian Nakua module, also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, via a livestream, multiple outlets reported. The crew and station were not in danger from the leak, Roscosmos, the Russian Federation’s space corporation, said in a statement on Telegram. This is the Russian third coolant leak in less than a year after the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft leaked coolant in December, and an uncrewed Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft had a coolant leak in February. Key Background Despite high tensions between the U.S. and Russia amid the latter’s invasion of Ukraine last year, NASA and Roscosmos have continued cooperating with missions to the ISS. However, the war has negatively impacted Russia’s space program amid budget cuts and isolation from the international community. During the Cold War-era space race, Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961, pushing the Soviets ahead of the U.S. Before Gagarin, the Soviets also sent the first animal to orbit Earth, a dog named Laika, on the Sputnik 2 in November 1957. She died in orbit. Despite its early success in…

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