ISS

The ISS leak crisis isn’t just about a crack in a 26-year-old docking port. It’s a signal that the cost of keeping an aging space station safe has crossed a critical threshold — and that future habitats must be designed for repair, not for abandonment. When astronauts hide in a SpaceX capsule while cosmonauts apply glue to a vacuum leak, we’re seeing the end of an era and the urgent lesson for deep space exploration.