Author: Loren Grush
This morning, the two Russian crew members on board the International Space Station are going on a spacewalk to investigate a mysterious hole that popped up in a visiting spacecraft that caused air to leak out of the ISS a few months ago. The origin of the hole has yet to be determined, and its existence has spawned numerous wild rumors about in-space sabotage. Today’s walk may help officially determine how the hole was made.
The astronauts on the ISS first discovered the hole in late August after flight controllers at NASA noticed that the air pressure was dropping, a sign that air was slowly leaking out of the station. Sure enough, the crew members traced the problem to a hole about two millimeters wide in one of the visiting Soyuz...
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This morning, the two Russian crew members on board the International Space Station are going on a spacewalk to investigate a mysterious hole that popped up in a visiting spacecraft that caused air to leak out of the ISS a few months ago. The origin of the hole has yet to be determined, and its existence has spawned numerous wild rumors about in-space sabotage. Today’s walk may help officially determine how the hole was made.
The astronauts on the ISS first discovered the hole in late August after flight controllers at NASA noticed that the air pressure was dropping, a sign that air was slowly leaking out of the station. Sure enough, the crew members traced the problem to a hole about two millimeters wide in one of the visiting Soyuz...
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