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The International Space Station Has a Pesky Leak — Not Even NASA Has a Solid Plan For It

Getting the aging International Space Station through another six years won’t be easy.

A recent report out last month from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General highlighted some of the big challenges to keeping the ISS flying safely, from replacing aging parts and maintaining supply lines 250 miles above the planet to space debris and a worryingly persistent leak in the Russian segment of the station.

But despite its old age, the venerable ISS still has an important role to play. For one, it’s still a cornerstone of NASA’s plans for the Moon and Mars, and it still plays a crucial role in research from Earth science and medicine to astronomy and physics. This leaves NASA and other space agencies that keep the ISS in a predicament: How will they keep this deteriorating vehicle standing? Right now, no one is completely sure.

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‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Injects Newfound Dread Into the Alien Invasion Movie

Elsa has been having visions. In several whimsical animated vignettes sprinkled throughout the dreamy French sci-fi film Meanwhile on Earth, Elsa (Megan Northam) is an astronaut with a chirpy disposition and a pair of antennae sticking out of her head, accompanying her brother Franck on his outer-space voyages. They fly past strange planets and stranger aliens, all while her brother, his face always hidden in shadow, is positively magnificent — the ideal noble astronaut.

But back on Earth, Elsa’s face seems permanently twisted into a grimace. There are no antennae to be seen on her disheveled head. Instead, she spends her days passively working at a nursing home, caring for people who are nearly as detached from reality as she is. She spends her nights alone by the statue of her brother, who has been missing for three years after a space mission gone wrong.

The town erected the statue in his absence — their hometown hero — but an angry, despondent Elsa has graffitied over it, upset over having been abandoned by the person closest to her. So it might not have been unusual when, during one of her late-night jaunts by Franck’s statue, she suddenly hears his voice. This time, however, it’s not one of her daydreams, but an odd, panicked message from the real Franck, instructing her to put the strange seed pod she just found into her ear.

Thus begins the eerie, mesmerizing sci-fi indie from director Jérémy Clapin, who makes his live-action debut after helming the excellent Oscar-nominated animated feature I Lost My Body. With Meanwhile on Earth, Clapin puts an eerie, existential spin on the body-snatcher movie, a genre that has long lived in the shadow of Philip Kaufman’s 1978 classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And while Meanwhile on Earth doesn’t necessarily revolutionize the genre, Clapin’s unnerving, lo-fi approach makes body-snatching aliens feel the most terrifying since Donald Sutherland first opened his mouth to let out a horrific inhuman scream.

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