Now, NASA may need to accelerate both of those plans -- because the ISS is leaking. That's bad news for NASA, but it may be good news for the several U.S. companies hoping to build a new space station.

Officials with NASA are at odds with their counterparts at the Russian space agency Roscosmos over the severity of a leak aboard the International Space Station.

NASA has concerns about the structural integrity of the Russian module and the "possibility of a catastrophic failure," per ISS Advisory Committee chair Bob Cabana

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 until 2030.

Depending on the weather, people will have an opportunity to see the International Space Station for up to 5 minutes every night this week in Salina.

Some of the main modules of the International Space Station are nearly a quarter-century old. "That's considered classic for a car," said Bennett Maruca, an astronomer and physicist at the University of Delaware.

NASA, the US space agency, is worried an air leak at the International Space Station could lead to a catastrophic failure. Spacenews.com says NASA and its Russian equivalent Roscosmos disagree over the cause of the leak in the Russian part of the space station,