NASA experts till now cannot find the reason of air leak from a crew compartment in shuttle Indeavour, which is to be launched on August, 7 of the current year.

As it was informed earlier, air leak was revealed during tests carried out at the end of the last week.

In the beginning experts have assumed that the reason was the weakened fastening on one of the units. But after its repair air still left the compartment. And till now experts have not found the decision of this problem.

It is informed, that the crew of a shuttle will consist of seven astronauts. It is planned that during their mission they will go out in the open space to modernize the International Space Station.

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