[Global Times Comprehensive Report] The US "Space" news website said on the 15th that the space agency of the United States and Russia recently had a quarrel in the air around the air leak on the International Space Station in 2018, and tried to "shake the pot" to each other.
According to reports, on August 29, 2018, NASA Johnson Space Center staff found that there was a slight pressure drop on the International Space Station.
The next day, a small hole with a diameter of about 2 mm was finally found in the bulkhead of the Russian "Soyuz MS-09" spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. The astronauts used epoxy resin and gauze to make an emergency repair, but the cause of the air leak has always been. Not ascertained.
Data map: On June 20, local time, the Associated Press released a video screenshot of the astronauts performing a spacewalk mission on the International Space Station.
The picture shows two astronauts of the International Space Station taking a spacewalk and installing solar panels.
ITAR-Tar said on the 13th that Russian space agency officials revealed that the investigation found that the American female astronaut Serena O'Nyon-Chainsele, who was on the International Space Station at the time, may be the culprit that caused the air leak.
The Russian side speculated that the female astronaut suffered a deep vein thrombosis in her neck during the mission in space, and she suffered a psychological breakdown, waiting for an opportunity to damage the Russian spacecraft docked at the space station so that she could return to Earth as soon as possible.
Russian Space Agency Director Dmitry Rogozin said that the crack on the spacecraft is a borehole, and the wear marks near the crack may be caused by the sliding of the hand-held drill.
According to the "Space" website, NASA denies this. They claim that according to surveillance video, the precise location of American astronauts on the International Space Station before and after the accident is clear, and no American astronauts have been to the "Alliance." The Russian section of the International Space Station where the spacecraft is docked.
The United States insisted that the air leak should be caused by human error on the ground. "It is very likely that a Russian engineer accidentally damaged the Soyuz spacecraft during maintenance operations, and then used a temporary patch to cover up the error. The International Space Station orbits the Earth. When the patch fell off midway, the Soyuz spacecraft leaked."
However, the Russian space agency suspects that the surveillance video of the International Space Station may have been tampered with, and that "the United States does not allow Russia to detect damaged spacecraft, nor does it allow polygraphs of American astronauts."
Casey Rudds, the director of NASA's manned spaceflight, said on the 14th that the astronaut's physical condition and other personal privacy should not be disclosed, and "the personal attack on the American astronaut Serena is groundless."
Despite recent tensions between the space departments of the United States and Russia, which are torn apart in space, senior NASA officials still hope to maintain cooperative relations with Russia. After all, the manned "Dragon" spacecraft of SpaceX of the United States will not be able to take people into the air until next year. At present, the United States can only continue to cooperate with Russia. (Li Yang, Zhao Haoquan)