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Confirmed to be caused by bad quality assurance:
A worker had found the hole, but instead of reporting it, he sealed it with glue, so that the section passed QA. In space, the glue plug shrunk and was blown out of the hole after some weeks.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...auf-iss-schlamperei-mit-system-a-1226349.html
A worker had found the hole, but instead of reporting it, he sealed it with glue, so that the section passed QA. In space, the glue plug shrunk and was blown out of the hole after some weeks.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...auf-iss-schlamperei-mit-system-a-1226349.html