"Routine Air Leaks Plague Aging Space Station"
The International Space Station, launched in 1998 with a design lifetime of 15 years, is now facing an aging phase with routine air leaks. The recent doubling of air leak rate from the Russian side of the station is being treated as a minor annoyance, with the leak located in the PrK chamber of the Zvezda module. While NASA and Russian engineers are working to locate and patch the leak, it is not currently posing a risk to the crew or the station.