A good deal of the last few years has played out like the beginning of a terrifying sci - fi moving-picture show . unnerve robot starteddeciding whether people should get the jobs they want . Self - driving cars turn out to bemore likely to feed you over if you are n’t quite bloodless enoughfor their computer programing , andsoap dispensers were also get a line to be antiblack .
Then there was the time a mysterious hole was discovered in the International Space Station ( ISS ) , which appear to have been drilled from the inside . In August 2018 , NASA announce they had found a " slow leak " on the ISS , after noticing a drop in pressure .
Unlike a sci - fi motion-picture show and more like aBugs Bunnycartoon , the yap was ab initio secure through the high-pitched - technical school solvent of an astronautjamming his finger in therewhilst the other astronauts enter out what to do next . They then covered it with tape recording , which is only marginally more reassuring than a digit , before using “ epoxy resin on a gauze wipe to plug the hole " .
The petite maw , which was in the Soyuz MS-09 Roscosmos spacecraft docked to the ISS , was inquire from both inside and out , with the workings theory being that it was cause by a micrometeoroid . However , it was by and by reason , consort to Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev , thatthe hole was drilled from the interior , whether by mistake or on purpose .
The mental faculty wasreturned to Earth in December 2018 . The head of Rosmocos has now say that they know incisively what the causa of the hole was – but they are not releasing that data to anybody .
" It was in the household compartment [ of the Soyuz MS-09 ship ] , it had already burned down long ago when the ship was approaching . We took all the samples . What pass off is vindicated to us , but we wo n’t tell you anything , " Dmitry Rogozin said at the conference , agree to Russian news agency RIA Novosti .
" We do ask to keep some sort of secretiveness . "
NASA say they have not been told the conclusions of the Rosmocos investigation into the kettle of fish and will be talking to the space agency about the issuing in the come days , though they say they do n’t want the issue to upset the healthy workings relationship the two agencies have develop over 40 age of cooperation in space .
" They have not told me anything , " NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine secernate theHouston Chronicle . " I do n’t want to let one item set [ the family relationship ] back , but it is distinctly not acceptable that there are holes in the International Space Station . "
