Astronauts Complete Nearly 8-hour Spacewalk to Investigate Space Station Mystery Hole

By Chelsea Gohd
Dec 12, 2018 12:00 AMMay 21, 2019 5:30 PM
Space walk for ISS hole investigation
Russian astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev help investigate the cause of a hole on the Soyuz spacecraft. (Credit: NASA)

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On Tuesday, two Russian cosmonauts spent seven hours and 45 minutes on a spacewalk, working to solve the mystery of who or what poked a hole in the Soyuz spacecraft. The cosmonauts used knives and other tools to cut a 10-inch chunk out of the International Space Station. It will be brought back to Earth and investigated for clues to the cause of a small hole in the Soyuz capsule.

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