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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to come in here and say something about helium being so small that a small leak would be very easy to miss but 5?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Not to mention that they make helium leak detectors. I'm not an expert but I built a helium tight 60000psi system a couple weeks ago first try. Granted it didn't have to survive a trip on a rocket.