VIDEO: Cosmonauts Slice Spacecraft For Clues To Cause Of Mysterious Hole
A small hole in spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has sparked an investigation into its origin. Cosmonauts spent hours on a spacewalk to gather samples in hopes of determining its cause.
by Matthew S. Schwartz
Dec 12, 2018
2 minutes
The video footage is surreal, a pair of gloved spacesuit hands wielding what looks like a silver dagger, poised to stab the outside of a Russian spacecraft.
"Honestly I can't look at that," cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev says, as voiced by a translator, while MS-09 capsule. "It's my vehicle, Oleg!"
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