ASTRONAUTS on the International Space Station could survive if it was struck
by a piece of space junk, provided the hole blown in the station’s shell was no
bigger than 10 centimetres across, claim NASA engineers. Confident that a crew
could survive the depressurisation and evacuate the stricken module—so
long as they don’t take a direct hit from the molten metal produced as the
projectile tears through the module’s skin—researchers at the space agency
have developed a puncture repair kit that would allow the astronauts to patch
the hole during a space walk.
Steve Hall at NASA’s Marshall…
