Science Steel of a hole in the meteorietenschild of a Soyuz at the International Space station (ISS) depends, end up for analysis in a laboratory of the Russian secret service, FSB, has a source in the intelligence services today to the Russian state news agency TASS said. The samples were Tuesday garnered by cosmonauts during a risky spacewalk.
On 30 August fell some pressure in the ISS as a result of a hole in the wall of the “living area” of the Soyuz MS-09 capsule for manned transport to and from the ISS. The two-millimeter-wide hole was quickly plugged, and the pressure continued to be stable.
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To the as-yet-unknown reason made the cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopjev Tuesday was a risky and controversial spacewalk in six hours and 31 minutes has lasted. They had more than an hour longer than planned to complete their tasks to complete. They took the samples with the conscious Soyuz on december 20, to the Earth return. The container with the material then moved to a laboratory of the FSB.
