General Studies · Passage and Conclusion

Read the passage carefully and judge the statement based on the given text. Using knives and shears, a pair of Russian spacewalkers on Tuesday cut samples of material around a mysterious hole in a Soyuz spacecraft docked on the International Space Station (ISS) that a Moscow official suggested could have been deliberately sabotaged. The 2 mm cavity on the Soyuz spaceship caused an air leak detected in August, two months after the craft's last voyage. Roscosmos space agency said the aim was to discover whether the dangerous hole had been made on Earth or in space, to cut away the insulation covering the hole, take out a sample of the material around it to analyze, and put new insulation over the area. The Roscosmos chief stated that an investigation had ruled out a manufacturing error. The veteran cosmonauts struggled but eventually succeeded in their mission. Before this spacewalk, astronauts had only been able to examine the h ole inside the spacecraft. What made it especially hard is that the Soyuz spacecraft, unlike the ISS, was not designed to be repaired in spacewalks and lacked outside railings for astronauts to hold onto. Statement: The Soyuz spacecraft was designed to be repaired in spacewalks.