"Kommersant": "Roscosmos" suspects the Americans of a leakage of air at the "Union"

Special Commission "Roscosmos" led by acting The first deputy leader of the state corporation Nikolai Sevastyanov, who is investigating the air leak on the Russian spacecraft "Soyuz MS-09", attached to the International Space Station, in priority considers the version of the deliberate damage to the ship’s lining with American cosmonauts. It is reported by "Kommersant" with reference to a high -ranking source.

The Americans say that the Americans could drill a hole in the sheathing of the ship in order to deliver one of their sick colleagues to the ground as soon as possible. According to the source, in the event of an urgent evacuation of the entire ISS crew, a household compartment in the ground, in which a hole was made, would burn in the atmosphere.

First, several other versions were put forward - a meteorite or production marriage. Then it was established that the hole was made by a drill: on the day of detection of air leakage, the astronauts reported to the flight control center that traces of non -finished glue were found in the hole. Now, Roscosmos is considered likely either marriage in production or damage to the ship during assembly: according to polls by astronauts, employees of the space corporation Energia, Roscosmos and photographs taken by Russians in space, specialists came to the conclusion that the hole appeared in the space after the joint of the ISS. According to Russian experts, the nature of the damage indicates that the hole was made not on the first attempt: around it several points that appeared as a result of a second touch of the drill are visible. Participants in the investigation believe that this happened due to the lack of a stop in the drill, which is typical for working in airless space.

“Our“ Soyuz ”stands at the Dawn module - this is right at the gateway with the American part of the station. Access to our ship is possible only with the permission of our commander, but we cannot exclude unauthorized access to Americans,” the interlocutor involved in the work at the ISS told Kommersant.

Roscosmos requested a copy of the video recorder from NASA and data on the medical readings of astronauts. According to the source in the space industry, it is unlikely that the request will be satisfied - information about the health of astronauts is classified as medical secret. “But if they refuse to help, then some additional questions about their involvement in the incident will already be superfluous,” the source added.

According to the source in Roscosmos, if state corporations are confused in the guilt of American astronauts, then for Russian-American relations in the field of space "not the most pleasant times will come." The air leakage incident on the ISS, the source claims, can be discussed at the meeting of Dmitry Rogozin and the head of NASA Jim Brandenstain, which will be held on October 11 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Air leak occurred on the ISS was detected on August 30. The crew of the station checked all the compartments of the station and found a microcrack in the size of a microcrack in size about 1.5 millimeters in the lining of the Soyuz. The hole was closed with sealant. The speed of lowering the air pressure at the station due to the microcrack was about 0.8 millimeters of the mercury of an hour; If the hole had not been closed, the ISS would be left without air after 18 days.

On September 3, Rogozin stated that the hole in the lining of the "Soyuz" could be drilled intentionally on the ground or in space. He called the “Energy” case “Energy” the search for the guilty in the incident and promised to “find out” his “surname and name”.