Head of NASA: the cause of the space station's hole will be determined
Head of NASA: the cause of the space station's hole will be determined
The head of the US space agency said on Tuesday he was confident that investigators would determine the cause of a mysterious hole that appeared on the International Space Station, which Russian Counterpart has said that it was deliberately drilled.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine also said that collaboration with Russia's Roscosmos remains important, despite recent comments from agency chief Dmitry Rogozin that Russia would not accept a "second-tier role" in a plan led by NASA to build an outpost near the Moon.
The hole that appeared in a Russian Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS caused a brief loss of air pressure in August before being repaired. The incident caused widespread speculation and consternation.
"I firmly believe that we are going to get the correct answer to what caused the hole in the International Space Station and that together we can continue our collaboration," said Bridenstine. "What we must do is allow the investigation to progress in a dispassionate way, without speculation, without rumors, without insinuations, without conspiracy".
Although the United States is working to achieve commercial launches to the ISS, Russia should not be considered a margin, he said.
"There will come a day when we will have our own access to the International Space Station through a commercial team, I want to be very clear, it is not a replacement for the Russian capabilities of Soyuz, we see it as a redundancy and" We want to make sure that even When a commercial team is up and running, we are launching American astronauts on Soyuz rockets and we would love for Russian cosmonauts to launch into commercial teams in the United States, "said Bridenstine.
With respect to the Gateway project, led by NASA, to build an outpost in lunar orbit, Rogozin said recently that Russia could not afford to participate in projects from other countries in a secondary role. But Bridenstine said that international participation in the project was key.
"We are going to build an architecture between Earth and the Moon where we can come and go a lot with robots, landers, vehicles and vehicles ... the complete architecture between Earth and the Moon requires reuse, it requires an international technology. comrades, "he said.
Bridenstine met with Rogozin in Moscow on Tuesday and both will attend Thursday's launch of a manned capsule to the space station from the Russian space complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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