Posted on 08/15/2021 7:04:21 AM PDT by Salman
The claims made by Russian media that NASA Astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor had a nervous breakdown and damaged a Russian spacecraft to get home are not credible, Kathy Lueders, who is leading NASA's human spaceflight program, said at a press conference on Friday.
Russia's TASS recently published a story, citing an unnamed source in the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, that claimed Aunon-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space and she made a microfracture in the Russian spacecraft to return early during a mission in 2018.
"Absolutely," Lueders said when asked whether NASA will defend its astronaut. "Our NASA crews perform their missions with professionalism and integrity. She [Aunon-Chancellor] is a well-respected crew member who has served her country and made a valuable contribution. I stand behind her and her professional conduct and I did not find this accusation credible."
Leuders is the Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.
Aunon-Chancellor travelled on Soyuz MS-09 in 2018 for a six-month mission to the ISS together with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev.
Who can we believe anymore?
Laz takes no prisoners, LOL!
God and yourself.
And I'm casting a jaundiced eye on myself.
Just saying...
-PJ
I was wondering this myself.
Just because I don't believe this Russian claim (without a hell of a lot more proof) doesn't mean that NASA is squeaky clean.
And Nowak got less than a slap on the wrist from the judge.
You completely misread the article you linked.
Roscosmos did not deny the story at all.
They didn’t say it wasn’t true.
Irregardless of whether she drilled the whole or not, I have no faith in anything the government hast to say. The government is illegitimate and corrupt.
Umm, perhaps he was thinking of the first mission (STS-26 Discovery) after the Challenger event which happened in 1986?
NASA lists all their missions:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/orbiter_flights.html
Hauk and Covey were the commander and pilot for STS-26.
Me too!
There is no reason to not believe the Ruskies...
Can’t we just call her a hero for coming up with a way to go home and work on her mental health?
It’s a ‘soygurl’...
“It’s a ‘soygurl’...”
Oops.
Linked to the wrong article. Roscosmos chief denies allegations. Here you go:
"One thing is for sure, however, that "high-ranking source" can't be Roscosmos chief Rogozin.
Using the TASS mouthpiece in 2018, he denied rumours that a NASA astronaut had made the hole in the hope of securing an early return to Earth. "We have never accused the Americans of that. It was an unscrupulous interpretation of certain statements and media reports. I categorically deny these allegations as totally untrue," he said."
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/13/nauka_iss_soyuz/
Try to remember when Russia ever told the truth....lol
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