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Sergey Prokopiev and Oleg Kononenko were forced to use a combination of sharp tools Space, To dig into the body of the spacecraft and find a hole that caused the escape of the vehicle "Soyuz" 4 months ago.
Images show parts of the structure of the ship flying in the space without gravity, shovels digging an object "Soyuz" Using external knives and large scissors.
The operation, which lasted seven hours and forty-five minutes, was carried out by both pilots outside their ship, a newspaper reported. "Daily mail" British.
She said Russian Space AgencyThe task was to determine whether the hole that caused the pressure leak was caused by an actor or had occurred naturally in space.
The bore was not more than two millimeters in diameter, which was exposed there "Soyouz" stopped at International Space Station, To escape the air from inside the vehicle last August.
By Tuesday, the astronauts had only been able to examine the hole from the inside of the ship and had taken about 5 hours to find it in the outer hull.
What makes this task more difficult is that, unlike the International Space Station, the "Soyuz" are not equipped to carry out repairs from the outside and are in the space it is n & # 39; There is nothing that astronauts can do to bridge.
The astronauts found no trace of the existence of "Drilling" intentionally from the outside of the ship around the hole, contrary to what appeared from the inside, as it seemed to have been intentionally created.
Last August, the International Space Station team plugged the hole from the inside with epoxy and coatings, but the Russian space agency wanted to examine it from the outside in space before bringing it back to Earth, which should happen next week.
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Sergey Prokopiev and Oleg Kononenko were forced to use a series of sharp tools in the space to dig into a spaceship and find a hole that resulted in the escape of the Soyuz vehicle four months ago .
The images show parts of the structure of the ship flying in space without gravity, while the diggers dug into the outer body of Soyuz using knives and large scissors.
The operation, which lasted seven hours and forty-five minutes, was carried out by both pilots outside their ship, the Daily Mail reported.
The purpose of the mission was to determine if the hole at the origin of the pressure leak was actually made or if it had occurred naturally in the space, announced the Russian Space Agency.
The hole, no more than two millimeters in diameter, hit the Soyuz, suspended from the International Space Station, to blow air inside the vehicle in August.
By Tuesday, the astronauts had only been able to examine the hole from the inside of the ship and had taken about 5 hours to find it in the outer hull.
What makes this task more difficult is that, unlike the International Space Station, Soyuz is not equipped to carry out repairs from outside and is in space. So there is nothing that astronauts can keep on deck.
The astronauts found no trace of deliberate "digging" from the outside of the ship around the hole, contrary to what appeared from the inside, as it appeared to have been intentionally created.
Last August, the International Space Station team plugged the hole from the inside with epoxy and coatings, but the Russian space agency wanted to examine it from the outside in space before bringing it back to Earth, which should happen next week.
