{"id":241346,"date":"2026-01-16T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:56:07","slug":"iss-sos-the-plan-to-leave-a-doomed-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241346\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS SOS: The plan to leave a doomed space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve all had situations in our lives where if we could go back and do it differently, we wouldn&#8217;t have freaked out as much about something or gotten so wound up that we lost sight of what the problem even was,&#8221; she told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/podcasts\/astronomy-podcasts\/space-boffins\/lessons-astronaut\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Space Boffins podcast<\/a>. &#8220;Everything doesn&#8217;t have to be fast, it just has to be done at the appropriate time and appropriate speed to allow us to digest what&#8217;s going on and respond effectively.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In practice that means reacting to the alarm, assessing what&#8217;s gone wrong, following the checklist and dealing with the issue methodically as a team. A fire, for instance, would mean locating all the crew, putting on respirators, activating fire extinguishers and sealing-off modules.<\/p>\n<p>The escape capsule is not only an escape capsule, it&#8217;s also your safe haven \u2013 Meganne Christian<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve trained so much that you just know, &#8216;OK, I have to immediately do these in response to this alarm that&#8217;s going off&#8217;,&#8221; says Stott. &#8220;There are things you know you just need to immediately to do to make safe the situation, take care of all of your crewmates and make sure that no one&#8217;s left behind \u2013 you don&#8217;t do yourself any favours if you&#8217;re freaking out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">So, within minutes of an alarm, the crew can get to their ferry spacecraft, seal the hatch and assess the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve all had situations in our lives where if we could go back and do it differently, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-241346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}