And now for the understatement of the day

From this article on MSNBC:Space crew weathers a scare during re-entry

When describing to reporters the air leak in his space capsule (for those of you who don’t follow space much, that is a very very very bad thing to have happen) Cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev said:

“In principle this was an anomalous situation of medium complexity. … In fact, it was a fairly serious situation.”

Yikes, in my book any time air is leaking out of my sapceship while it is in space and I am sitting it it, it is an extremely serious situation.