Investigators and the security service of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos will question Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, who returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, and Oleg Artemyev about the microfracture found in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft in late August, a source in the space industry told Sputnik on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th December, 2018) Investigators and the security service of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos will question Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, who returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, and Oleg Artemyev about the microfracture found in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft in late August, a source in the space industry told Sputnik on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Russia's Soyuz MS-09, carrying Prokopyev, German astronaut Alexander Gerst, and NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, successfully landed in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft's orbital module, where the "hole" had been found, burned away when the Soyuz entered the atmosphere.
"Both cosmonauts will be questioned about the incident," the source said, adding that Prokopyev may meet with the authorities in a few days.
Another source in the space industry told Sputnik that Artemyev, who returned from the ISS in October, had already been questioned.
Both Prokopyev and Artemyev were at the space station when the ISS crew found an air leakage caused by a microfracture in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09, which docked at the station in early June. Roscosmos set up a special commission to investigate the incident.
