MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th September, 2018) The commission of Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia, which investigated the emergence of a hole in the fabric of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, attached to the conclusions the space vehicle's photographs at the assembly stage, which show the spacecraft without the hole, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Sunday.
"The last photographs of the fabric of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft have been done in shop 45 of the experimental machine-building plant of the Energia rocket and space corporation ... The photographs show no holes in the fabric [of the spacecraft]," the source said.
"Thus, leaving aside the version of the spacecraft's drilling in space, the hole emerged during 180 days between its transportation from the shop in the Energia rocket and space corporation and the orbital launch," the source indicated.
