MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - The crew on the International Space Station (ISS), Sergei Krikalyov and John Phillips, will train for an emergency evacuation Tuesday.
"The exercise includes practicing actions in the event of an emergency, which means evacuation on board the Soyuz rescue capsule docked to the station," an expert at Russia's Mission Control said.
He said the astronauts would refresh their skills in boarding the escape capsule in the event that the station lost pressure.
"The capsule will not be undocked during the exercise," the expert added.
There are different degrees of risk with depressurization, ranging from a micro-leak through a window sealer, which has already occurred on the ISS, to a worst-case situation, like the one that happened after a Progress cargo ship bumped into the Russia's former space station, Mir.
"If discovered, a leak must be reported to Earth," the Mission Control expert said. "Then, [the crew] must isolate the depressurized module, find the leak using a special device, pump in oxygen and monitor the situation in accordance with our instructions."
