NASA canceled a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Monday after an astronaut’s spacesuit leaked water.
Astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt opened the space station’s airlock hatch when Dyson reported that water was leaking from the suit’s cooling system. The leak occurred when Dyson switched the suit over to battery power. The astronauts had not yet exited.
“There’s literally water everywhere now,” Barratt said.
The pair were not in any danger, according to NASA.
The astronauts were tasked with removing a faulty communications box and taking microbial samples from outside the orbital laboratory. The spacewalk was scheduled for nearly seven hours but actually lasted just 30 minutes.
Earlier this month, a spacewalk was postponed after another astronaut experienced “spacesuit discomfort.”
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