Soyuz set to depart station bringing crew of three back to EarthOctober 3, 2018 William Harwood
(...) With commander Oleg Artemyev at the controls, flanked on the left by flight engineer Drew Feustel and on the right by Ricky Arnold, the Soyuz MS-08/54S spacecraft was scheduled to detach from the station’s space-facing Poisk module at 3:57 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) to kick off a three-hour 48-minute trip home to Earth. (...)
(...) The Expedition 56 crew also dealt with a small leak in the Soyuz MS-09/55S spacecraft that carried Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor to the station in June. The leak was discovered in the upper module of that ferry ship, prompting a quick repair job by Artemyev and Prokopyev who sealed it with epoxy-soaked cloth.
The leak appeared to be the result of a hole deliberately drilled into the side of the module, but an investigation is not yet complete. Dimitri Rogozin, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, stirred controversy when he suggested the hole could have been drilled on the ground or in space.
That prompted a pointed response from Feustel during a media interview later.
“I can unequivocally say that the crew had nothing to do with this on orbit, without a doubt, and I think it’s actually a shame and somewhat embarrassing that anybody is wasting any time talking about something that the crew was involved in,” Feustel told ABC News. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/10/03/soyuz-set-to-depart-station-bringing-crew-of-three-back-to-earth/
Wątek: ISS - Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna (2018) (Przeczytany 187447 razy)