Space Station Repaired with Tea Leaves
Tea bag comes in handy on the International Space Station
The crew of the international space station repaired an air leak with the help of a tea bag. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency stated there was a mysterious air leak first noticed in September 2019. They considered the leak inconsequential until the rate of air leaking increased August 2020.
One would think any air leak in space is dangerous, but this is only my opinion.
Oddly enough, the leak was found when cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin opened a tea bag, allowing tea leaves to float inside the transfer chamber of the station. The crew sealed the chamber and monitored the tea leaves with video cameras. They found the leak when the tea leaves floated to a scratch in the wall.
They repaired the leak using Kapton tape. Not a hi-tech fix, but it worked.
