Roscosmos has ruled out a manufacturing defect causing the 2 mm-wide hole found in August on the Russian Soyuz capsule, but NASA has sought to dampen speculation of sabotage.
The puncture has since been sealed, halting the oxygen leak. Officials said the crew – three U.S. astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one German – were never in danger.
After more than five hours of a rare broadcast – showing the cosmonauts in space trying to cut through an insulate of the spacecraft with a knife – they uncovered the external part of the hole, originally discovered in the capsule`s internal covering, and took samples of the exterior insulation.
In line with the instructions from the control centre, they also took pictures of the external side of the hole.
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