Russia’s International Space Station program is having a rough couple of weeks. After accidentally destroying its own ability to launch crews to the ISS , Roscosmos is now dealing with a serious disciplinary issue involving one of its cosmonauts: Oleg Artemyev.
Artemyev was supposed to launch to the station in February aboard SpaceX’s Crew 12 mission, but he has been replaced by fellow cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev, Roscosmos announced on Tuesday. Artemyev was taken off the mission after sources alleged that he violated U.S. national security regulations by photographing SpaceX documentation and then using his phone to export classified information, according to The Insider , an independent Russian investigative news outlet.
“My sources confirm that a violation did occur and an inter

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