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To obtain more data, two Russian cosmonauts went on a dramatic spacewalk in December 2018 and used knives to cut through the exterior insulation on the Soyuz vehicle. At the same time, however, sources in the Russian government started baseless rumors that perhaps a disgruntled NASA astronaut had drilled the hole.

Some Russian media reported that it had been caused by a manufacturing or testing defect, and this seems to be the most plausible theory.

#Just translate russian Patch#

Fortunately, cosmonauts were able to patch the hole with epoxy, and the Soyuz spacecraft was deemed safe to fly its crew of three back to Earth.ДЄttention quickly turned to what had caused the hole to appear. Left unchecked, the small hole would have depressurized the station in about two weeks. The leak was discovered in late August.ДЇurther Reading Nauka moduleвЂ™s near miss raises concerns about future of space station Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and NASA's AuГ±Гіn-Chancellor had flown to the station inside this Soyuz in June. One of a dozen rebuttals in the TASS article concerns a 2018 incident-a 2 mm breach in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 vehicle docked with the International Space Station. The TASS article attempts to rebut criticism in US publications ( including Ars Technica) that covered the incident and raised questions about the future of the Roscosmos-NASA partnership in space. The context for the article is the recent, near-disastrous docking of the Russian Nauka science module with the International Space Station. This, of course, is a complete fabrication.

The publication claims that AuГ±Гіn-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space, then damaged a Russian spacecraft in order to return early. Russia's state-owned news service, TASS, has published an extraordinarily defamatory article about NASA astronaut Serena AuГ±Гіn-Chancellor.