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[i]However reassuring that finding may be for space officials in Russia and at NASA, which has rented seats on the Soyuz rocket as the only means for Americans to reach space after the retirement of the space shuttle this summer, pinpointing the cause as a manufacturing flaw is likely to increase jitters about Russian safety. The commission shared this concern. "The members of the commission came to the conclusion that the manufacturing defect was accidental," it said. "But a decision can be taken to qualify it as a single instance only after a thorough re-evaluation" of quality control in the entire parts supply for the third-stage engines. The commission recommended that the space agency put into effect a better quality-control program for engine parts and offered a suggestion for the plant that made the flawed pipe: "video surveillance of workers at the final assembly line."[/i]
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