Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks

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NASA ordered its astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take emergency shelter in a Crew Dragon a week ago, stirring public concern about the orbital outpost's safety. The source of alarm: persistent cracks in the station's structure that Russia had left unaddressed for years. Now, according to sources who spoke to Ars Technica, Russia has finally tackled the problem and engineers believe it's been fixed, though neither NASA nor Roscosmos has publicly confirmed details about what went wrong or how they remedied it.