The smoke alarm went off yesterday in Russia's segment of the ISS while astronauts smelled burning plastic on board, Roscosmos and NASA said. The news comes after small cracks have been found in the Zarya module just last month. The smoke detector was triggered during automatic battery charging, Roscosmos said.
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