General Studies · Passage and Conclusion

Read the passage carefully and assess the given statement based on it: Using knives and saws, two Russian astronauts on Tuesday took samples of a substance around a mysterious cavity on the Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS). In August, an air leak was detected in the Soyuz spacecraft due to a 2mm hole. Roscosmos, the space agency, stated that cutting off the insulation over the hole and sampling the material around it aims to find out whether this small but dangerous hole was made on Earth or in space. The head of Roscosmos noted that a manufacturing defect has not been found in the investigation so far. Statement: The mysterious hole in the Soyuz spacecraft was definitively due to a manufacturing error.