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The other day it became known that on the morning of August 30 at the International space station emergency happened. Astronauts received a message that there was an air leak on the ISS, and steel inspect the compartments of the station, looking for a hole.
2-mm hole on the Soyuz docked to the ISS MS-09 “was found by 42-year-old German explorer Alexander Gerst, who did not come up with anything better, how to plug a hole with your own finger. 4 other crew members arrived to help colleague and quickly closed the hole with a special tape, and then epoxy resin.
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There is an opinion that the consequences of space depressurization ships will become disastrous for the crew. For example, in the famous science fiction film “Alien: Resurrection” through a small holes in the ship’s hull sucks a large living organism. By nevertheless, Gerst proved by his example that in reality nothing bad happens in this case.
It was originally assumed that the hole formed in the ISS due to a collision of a station with a tiny meteorite or space garbage, but then there was information that everything became the fault one of the Roskosmos employees who discovered a gap in the ship on Earth 2 months ago, however, due to negligence, it’s only anointed glue, relying on the Russian “maybe” …
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