On the International Space Station (ISS), two new breakdowns caused the oxygen supply and the toilet in the Russian segment of the Outpost of Mankind to fail. The cosmonaut Anatoly Iwanischin informed the flight control center near Moscow about the new incidents. There had been several problems with the sanitary facilities and the oxygen supply. Russia’s space agency Roskosmos announced on Tuesday that the crew had fixed all problems and everyone was safe.

Replacement toilet available Finally there was also a leak through which air had escaped. It was stuffed. “All the station’s systems are working according to plan. Nothing threatens the safety of the crew or the flight of the ISS,” said the agency in the short message service Twitter. Furthermore, the toilet was on the 8th and 10. October canceled. The oxygen supply had also broken down again and again.

The cosmonaut Iwan Wagner told the state agency Ria Nowosti that the problems might arise when docking the space capsule occurred the previous week. There is a second toilet in the American part of the space station. Russians and Americans help each other in the event of a breakdown. In November 2019, when the astronauts’ toilet failed, the Russian sanitary facilities were overloaded. Therefore the astronauts had to use diapers for a while