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A worsening air leak aboard the ISS prompted NASA to direct five astronauts to prepare for evacuation, but the space agency reversed that order roughly two hours later.

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Three American astronauts, one French astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut were ordered by NASA to shelter in their spacecraft. 
Russia's space agency Roscosmos said its experts detected two leaks aboard the ISS but that there was no immediate threat to the crew. The first leak was quickly sealed, and preparations were underway to seal the second one. 
Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, who did not execute evacuation procedures, were planning to use a saw to break into an area where they believe they can access the crack leaking air, according to a senior NASA official. 
NASA officials disagreed with this method, the NASA official said, prompting mission control in Houston to order safe-haven procedures. 
NASA reversed the safe-haven order and told astronauts they could return to the space station once Roscosmos paused its efforts to repair the crack. The safe-haven order lasted roughly two hours.

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