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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: 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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