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Owner: E-Cigs in Space (Team 5)
Pageviews in January 2014: 125,999
Pageviews in January 2014: 125,999
What happened: Last week, a malfunction at the International Space Station resulted in a brief evacuation. It appeared there was an ammonia leak at the station. The astronauts onboard "put on emergency masks and [rushed] to the Russian side of the orbital station to avoid potential poisoning from ammonia." Thankfully, it turned out to be a false alarm.
The brief scare was a small blip on a strong news week. But it did remind people that the space station exists, and prompted a bump in pageviews at the Wikipedia page for International Space Station. On the 14th, the day of the glitch, daily pageviews jumped from 3,773 to 15,969. As of January 16th, it looks like pageviews have reached a similar level prior to the glitch, with about 4,196 pageviews on the 16th.
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