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Russian cosmonauts take sample of mystery hole in Soyuz capsule docked at international space station

  • The capsule leak caused a flap between the US and Russian space agencies, following its discovery at the end of August.
  • The spacewalk lasted almost eight hours
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko conducts a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Space (ISS). Photo: Nasa

Using knives and shears, a pair of Russian spacewalkers cut samples of material around a mysterious hole in a Soyuz spacecraft docked on the International Space Station that a Moscow official suggested could have been deliberate sabotage.

Roscosmos space agency said the aim was to discover whether the “small but dangerous” hole had been made on Earth or in space.