World News for Students of English

11-06-2026 07:00

Five astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) had to go inside their SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship for safety. They did this because air was leaking from a Russian part of the station.

While two Russian cosmonauts fixed the leaks, the other astronauts waited inside their ship in case they needed to return to Earth. A space expert said the situation was serious, but the crew didn’t have to wear their spacesuits. They waited for a few hours, and then they could go back into the station.

The space station is very old – some parts went to space in 1998. It is like an old car which needs a lot of repairs. The station gets stressed when other spaceships hit it hard during docking, which causes small cracks. If there was a big danger, the astronauts could close the doors of their spaceship and leave the station in just one minute.

Difficult words: leak (when water or gas gets out from a container), dock (to bring two ships or spacecraft together and connect them), crack (a thin line which breaks something).

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