Wednesday’s spacewalk is the 252nd in the station’s history (Getty)
US and Russian officials said that a Russian mission to the outer space Out International Space Station It expired Wednesday, following an astronaut discovered an electrical problem in his suit.
Oleg Artemyev spent nearly two hours on a six-hour spacewalk when voltage levels in his suit’s battery began to drop unexpectedly, prompting flight controllers in Moscow to repeatedly order the cosmonaut to immediately return to the station’s airlock. .
In a live audio broadcast, the flight controller told Artemyev from the mission control center in Moscow, “Oleg, leave everything, come back… leave everything, start returning at once… Go back and plug (the suit into) the power supply at the station.”
Artemyev returned to the airlock, and connected his suit to a power source.
The observer warned Artemyev that he would risk cutting off power to the oxygen pump in his suit, as well as calling the control center, if he did not immediately return to the airlock for power. But the spokesperson US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Rob Navias said Artemyev was “never in any danger”.
The Russian control team chose to end the mission following the other cosmonaut Denis Matveev collected his tools and returned the robotic arm they were regarding to upgrade to normal. With Matveev’s return, the spacewalk will have taken four hours.
Wednesday’s spacewalk mission was the 252nd in the station’s history, and was intended to install cameras and make modifications to a European robot arm installed on the Russian Noka Research Unit that will be used to transport equipment remotely outside the station.
(Archyde.com)
