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Russian expert: Space station sabotage theory ‘nonsense’

By Joel Gehrke
Published September 4, 2018 6:08pm ET
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Russian expert: Space station sabotage theory ‘nonsense’
NASA and Russian space officials stressed Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, that the six astronauts are in no danger after a small air leak developed in one, at left, of the two Soyuz capsules docked at the space station. | (NASA via AP)

A leak on board the International Space Station could not have been caused by any member of the international crew, according to a Russian space industry expert.

“I would not like to use the word nonsense, but all this does not fit in well with logic,” Alexander Zheleznyakov, a member of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, told state-run media.

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