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MONTREAL – Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques said last week's air leak at the International Space Station was like a wake-up call.
A senior Russian space official said it was a small hole in one of the Russian Soyuz pods moored to the space station.
The leak was corrected with a sealer that the officials claimed to be airtight.
Saint-Jacques said Thursday that the incident shows that all astronaut training is not a joke and that it can become useful.
"This makes you want to study even harder and train you harder to be ready to respond to any problem like this," he added.
Saint-Jacques made the remark at a press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston where he discussed his upcoming six-month visit to the space station.
He was joined by American astronaut Anne McClain and Russian Oleg Kononenko, her two traveling companions, who will board the Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 20 for Kazakhstan's orbiting space laboratory.
McClain told the press that Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, had convened a state commission to investigate the leak and that it had "100% confidence" in the commission.
Speaking through the intermediary of an interpreter, Kononenko added that he was certain that specialists would find out what was wrong, pointing out that he was "positive" that it was an exception ".
It has been reported that, according to a senior Russian official, the leak was a borehole occurring during manufacture or in orbit.
The Canadian press
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