Washington: NASA on Monday canceled a spacewalk on the Worldwide House Station after water leaked from an astronaut’s spacesuit.
Astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt opened the hatch to the house station’s airlock when Dyson reported water leaking from her spacesuit’s cooling system. The leak occurred when Dyson switched her spacesuit to battery energy. The astronauts hadn’t floated exterior but.
“There’s actually water all over the place right here now,” Barratt mentioned. The duo weren’t in peril, in line with NASA.
The astronauts had been alleged to take away a defective communications field and acquire microbe samples from exterior the orbiting laboratory. The spacewalk was deliberate for practically seven hours, however lasted solely a half hour.
Earlier this month, a spacewalk was postponed after one other astronaut skilled “spacesuit discomfort.”
