Storms to batter Gulf Coast with torrential downpours and coastal flood threat NASA astronauts resumed normal operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after briefly sheltering in the docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft while Russia’s space agency paused a repair operation that was intended to address new leaks found in the Russian segment of the station. Astronauts had taken “safe haven procedures” out of an abundance of caution, according to NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens. The new leaks were found in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, which has been plagued by a series of ongoing cracks that have been managed by Russia’s Roscosmos agency, Stevens said. Four astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-12 mission and NASA astronaut Chris Williams, who was also aboard the station, were ordered to take shelter in the Dragon spacecraft that’s docked at the ISS while Roscosmos attempted to carry out a more extensive repair operation on Friday. Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot walk out of the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center before transport to Launch Complex 40, on February 13, 2026. REUTERS