The spacewalk took place two astronauts International Space Station (ISS) was suspended as a precaution, when detecting that one of them, American Tim Kopra, had entered the water on the hull.
” Water in the hull of one of the suits. We have a crew performing procedures conclusion “of the spacewalk, announced the US space agency (NASA), in a message on his Twitter account
” The crew is safely back in the pressurization “said NASA
The head of astronauts NASA, Chris Cassidy, said the mission was never in danger and that the spacewalk was suspended for extreme caution after a similar incident occurred two and a half years ago.
The spacewalk took closer to 5 hours, Tim Kopra reported a small bubble of water in his helmet, so he and his partner, Britain’s Tim Peake, prematurely decided to suspend their work outside . ISS
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However, the two astronauts had time to repair parts of the electrical system of the station needed to be replaced <. /> p>
“We caution procedures based on experience (…) The difference is that now we have to get to guess what happened,” said Cassidy .
The incident occurred assimilated to spacewalk Italian Luca Parmitano in July 2013, when the town was filled with cooling water to the point of almost drowning astronaut, who acted in time to return to the ISS
. On this occasion, Kopra felt the cold touch water and reported it to the control center, which decided to immediately suspend the walk, culminating in the smooth return to the ISS in about thirty minutes after the first notice.
ISS astronauts have taken photographic evidence of the spacesuit to assist in the investigation of the fault.
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