Space travel
Problems with spacesuits: ISS spacewalk postponed
Further spacewalks on the ISS are planned in the coming weeks. Photo
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An astronaut and a female astronaut were supposed to leave the ISS to carry out repair work – but an unforeseen problem stopped the plan at short notice.
Due to problems with the spacesuits, an external mission to the International Space Station planned for Thursday has been ISS was postponed at short notice. There had been “complaints”, said the US space agency NASA. Astronaut Tracy Dyson and her colleague Matt Dominick had therefore taken off their spacesuits again – around an hour before they were due to leave the ISS. NASA did not initially provide any further details. A new date was also not initially announced.
Dyson and Dominick were originally scheduled to leave the ISS for around six hours. Among other things, the two were to repair broken electronics and take samples from the ISS’s outer surfaces. Further spacewalks are planned in the coming weeks.