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Last week, a pressure leak occurred on the International Space Station. It was slow and posed no immediate threat to the crew, with the atmosphere leaving the station at a rate such that depressurization of the station would have taken 14 days.
Eventually, US and Russian crew members traced the leak to a 2mm breach in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 vehicle that had flown to the space station in June. The module had carried Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and NASA's Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor.
[...] The drama might have ended there, as it was initially presumed that the breach had been caused by a tiny bit of orbital debris. However, recent Russian news reports have shown that the problem was, in fact, a manufacturing defect. It remains unclear whether the hole was an accidental error or intentional. There is evidence that a technician saw the drilling mistake and covered the hole with glue, which prevented the problem from being detected during a vacuum test.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 06 2018, @10:49AM (6 children)
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/05/iss-drill-hole-nasa-roscosmos-sabotage/ [engadget.com]
Yes, let's not rule out the possibility of astronauts aboard the ISS in space sabotaging the thing.
Expect more weirdness as Commercial Crew finally happens, ending U.S. reliance on the Russians, the ISS stops getting used around 2028, and China launches its international-friendly space station [soylentnews.org].
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(Score: 3, Funny) by J_Darnley on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:41AM (3 children)
The 100% accurate documentary film Armageddon clearly showed that people get space dementia and go crazy with the remotely operated minigun.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 06 2018, @01:37PM
I was more impressed with now NASA has been able to maintain the secret that shuttles could withstand multiple stoned impact strikes with large rocks at high speed.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday September 06 2018, @09:19PM (1 child)
I dunno if Armageddon is real but since very similar things happened throughout Space 1999 I tend to believe it.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday September 06 2018, @10:35PM
Ah, good times. Space 1999.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @02:59PM (1 child)
If it was someone on the IIS, then the leak would have registered right away, and they would not have filled it with glue (the glue would have been sucked out into space along with the escaping oxygen).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @04:17PM
But IIS is already full of holes, why would someone bother drilling new ones?