ISS crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, is seen inside the Nauka Module on July 31 |
Russian cosmonauts have given a video tour of the interior
of a research module which briefly threw the International Space Station out of
control on Thursday a few hours after docking.
Footage published late on Saturday showed cosmonauts Oleg
Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov opening the hatches and giving a short tour inside
the Nauka module, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
According to NASA's account of Thursday's incident, the
mission flight director immediately declared a spaceflight emergency as engineers
on the ground struggled to restore stability to the sprawling research
satellite.
NASA and Roscosmos each said that the seven crew members —
two Russian cosmonauts, three US astronauts and two others from Japan and
France — were never in any immediate danger.
Roscosmos, which this week spoke of plans to launch another
Russian module to the station in November, has suffered a series of mishaps and
corruption scandals, including during the construction of the Vostochny
Cosmodrome in the country's far-east where contractors were accused of
embezzling state funds.
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