[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

You don't need an arm to put on the space suit, and the space-walk backpack and tether.

The arm is simply for making out-of-bay repairs and accessing other objects, etc.

Astronaut + Spacesuit + Tether rope = spacewalk.

Sorry, I'm not buying it.

[_Jim]

Yes you do.

And this crew wasn't trained in that type of task/endeavor ...

I can see you are a simpleton, understanding nothing.

Good bye.

[Terriergal]

Sorry, I'm not buying it.

Better put your tinfoil hat on!

I already have mine - it wouldn't take much sabotage work to have this happen. I'd imagine the tolerances are pretty tight. Cyrano (husband) here theorizes something as simple as loosening a screw a couple turns could conceiveably cause trouble. Just screw something up on a system that takes a lot of stress coming back in, and that would be that.

And if you planted some kind of explosive (which would probably be traceable eventually) you could trigger it by radio frequency whenever you wanted to.

just thinking out loud... I don't have any leanings one way or another, but sabotage isn't something that would surprise me at all.