Thursday 13 December 2018

Space station astronauts on a spacewalk to investigate mystery hole

Space station astronauts on a spacewalk to investigate mystery hole

Spacewalking astronauts sliced through thick insulation on a capsule docked to the International space station on Tuesday, trying to find clues to a mysterious drilled hole that leaked precious cabin air four months ago. The space station’s crew patched the small hole in the Soyuz capsule last August, mistreatment epoxy and gauze. Russian space officials wanted the site surveyed from the outside, before the capsule’s return to Earth next week with Russian Sergei Prokopyev and 2 others.

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