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Russia Says It Will Keep Source of Hole (and Air Leak) on Soyuz Secret— But NASA Wants to Know...
Live Science ^ | 2019-09-22T12:40:29Z | Elizabeth Howell - Contributor

Posted on 09/22/2019 8:29:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Amid reports that the Russians will keep the cause of an air leak discovered at the International Space Station in 2018 secret, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has promised to speak personally with the head of the Russian space agency.

"They have not told me anything," Bridenstine said during a Houston energy conference question session Thursday (Sept. 19), according to the Houston Chronicle. But he emphasized that he wants to keep good relations with the Russians, one of the two chief partners on the orbiting complex.

"I don't want to let one item set [the relationship] back, but it is clearly not acceptable that there are holes in the International Space Station," he said, referring to the 2-millimeter (0.08 inches) hole that the Expedition 56 crew found in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, a crew vehicle that was docked to the station.

Bridenstine's comments came in the wake of a report by Russia's state-run international news agency RIA Novosti, in which Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos (the Russian space agency), suggested his agency found what created the hole last year, but would not disclose the results outside of Roscosmos.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: airleak; dmitryrogozin; elizabethhowell; iss; issleak; keywordtroll; nasa; prorusskytrolls; putinsbuttboys; roscosmos; russia; science; soyuz; vladtheimploder

1 posted on 09/22/2019 8:29:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

What is the cost of lies?


2 posted on 09/22/2019 8:30:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/chernobyl-memes-35-photos-25-4.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=641


3 posted on 09/22/2019 8:32:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

“it is clearly not acceptable that there are holes in the International Space Station”

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Except that for more than a year its been acceptable.


4 posted on 09/22/2019 8:41:29 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: BenLurkin

I’d care most to confirm they fixed the problem and taken measures to insure similar future leaks don’t occur.


5 posted on 09/22/2019 8:41:59 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: BenLurkin

NASA: “You better tell us about that hole in your spacecraft ... otherwise, we will stop using the Soyuz to transport our crews to the ISS even though we don’t have any spacecraft to do the job ourselves!”


6 posted on 09/22/2019 8:43:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: dfwgator
What is the cost of lies?

Lives.

7 posted on 09/22/2019 8:51:39 AM PDT by null and void (<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not “source, actually they hide the cause. Arrest him as soon as they land


8 posted on 09/22/2019 9:17:55 AM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: BenLurkin

Where is the “it was aliens” picture when we need it?


9 posted on 09/22/2019 12:03:13 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: BenLurkin

“I’m a Russian cosmonaut. I’m in charge here. This is not a gas station”. Armageddon movie.


10 posted on 09/22/2019 12:30:12 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: BenLurkin

A top secret meteorite?


11 posted on 09/22/2019 1:35:02 PM PDT by GingisK
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