cosmonaut

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On Dec. 14, as the cosmonauts were preparing to leave the station’s airlock to perform a spacewalk, ground controllers noticed a leak of coolant spraying uncontrollably into space.

From Washington Post

The micrometeoroid strike and the leaking coolant were discovered by Roscosmos cosmonauts preparing to do a spacewalk.

From Washington Times

The incident has disrupted Russia's ISS activities, forcing a suspension of spacewalks by its cosmonauts as officials focus on the leaky capsule, which serves as a lifeboat for the crew.

From Reuters

The video showed images of Soviet cosmonauts, writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

From Reuters

The leak started as two cosmonauts were preparing for a routine spacewalk.

From BBC