Bringing a knife to a spacewalk: Cosmonauts inspect Soyuz leak repair

Bringing a knife to a spacewalk: Cosmonauts inspect Soyuz leak repair

During a nearly eight-hour spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts used a knife to peel back thermal insulation in order to inspect an area of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft where a small leak occurred and was repaired earlier in the year.

In August 2018, a minor leak was detected aboard the International Space Station. The source of the slow depressurization event was traced to the Orbital Module of Soyuz MS-09.

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