Seriously, this is the kind of bullshit we used to hear all the time when I was a kid and the cold war was still on. It makes sense, Putin is embracing Soviet style dictatorship in an effort to never leave power, and maintain his mafia leadership till death. Keep inventing crises and conspiracies and he gets to stay in power. It works so well Trump was trying to copy it, and it almost worked. That's the biggest convincer for me that Trump was working hand up his ass from Putin. And he fit like a glove.
I mean is there anything sadder than grown "adults" in international science programs with tears in their eye point and cry "mum it was his fault".
The accidentally drilled and patched hole while on earth does make a lot more sense than someone wanting to return to earth for medical treatment, so they took a chance on destroying the entire space station.
You're omitting a bunch of evidence in favor of the initial lazy-worker conclusion, not least:
There is evidence that a technician saw the drilling mistake and covered the hole with glue, which prevented the problem from being detected during a vacuum test. . . “I have conducted investigations of all kinds of spacecraft, and after landing, we discovered a hole drilled completely through the hull of a re-entry module," the former Energia employee, Viktor Minenko, said in Gazeta.RU. "But the technician didn't report the defect to anyone but sealed up the hole with epoxy. We found the person, and after a commotion he was terminated,” said Minenko.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... [arstechnica.com]
Now Russia is trying to do a lazy clean-up of their reputation by blaming someone completely outside their control. Maybe this story will encourage Russians' pride in their space industry. Maybe for a few, it will improve the view of Russia's commercial launch capacity relative to Space-X . But there is no reason to take it seriously, especially since we know the location of th
Live with it and the fact that you'll make mistakes to learn from...or stay on Earth.
I can't believe that Elon Musk has more grace in dealing with mistakes than a Superpower.
It was a 2 mm hole. Had it been the US, it would have been 5/64 inch.
I mean is there anything sadder than grown "adults" in international science programs with tears in their eye point and cry "mum it was his fault".
The accidentally drilled and patched hole while on earth does make a lot more sense than someone wanting to return to earth for medical treatment, so they took a chance on destroying the entire space station.
There is evidence that a technician saw the drilling mistake and covered the hole with glue, which prevented the problem from being detected during a vacuum test. . . “I have conducted investigations of all kinds of spacecraft, and after landing, we discovered a hole drilled completely through the hull of a re-entry module," the former Energia employee, Viktor Minenko, said in Gazeta.RU. "But the technician didn't report the defect to anyone but sealed up the hole with epoxy. We found the person, and after a commotion he was terminated,” said Minenko.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... [arstechnica.com]
Now Russia is trying to do a lazy clean-up of their reputation by blaming someone completely outside their control. Maybe this story will encourage Russians' pride in their space industry. Maybe for a few, it will improve the view of Russia's commercial launch capacity relative to Space-X . But there is no reason to take it seriously, especially since we know the location of th