Astronaut’s go well with leaks, NASA cancels ISS spacewalk mission

CNN Indonesia

Tuesday, 25 June 2024 11:57 IWST

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

United States Aeronautics and Area Administration (NASA) aborted a spacewalk mission or spacewalk on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) on Monday (24/6). The mission was aborted resulting from a spacecraft leak within the crater.

The 2 astronauts scheduled to finish the mission, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mike Barrat, obtained data from Mission Management at roughly 08.52 EDT to cancel the deliberate 6.5 hour spacewalk on the ISS.

The 2 had turned on energy contained in the fits at 8:46am, which means that the spacewalk had technically begun. After the abort, the astronauts opened the doorways of the ISS at 9:51 a.m. EDT, formally ending the spacewalk.

In a reside broadcast by NASA, the 2 astronauts reported numerous rain after they had been altering their fits to inner energy to organize for area actions.

The leak is claimed to have originated from the service and cooling umbilicus (SCU) on the Dyson spacesuit. Though the state of affairs is dire, the astronauts are usually not in peril due to the leak.

NASA, in its official assertion, revealed the choice to cancel the mission as a result of it was not clear how a lot water was left in Dyson’s go well with after the leak.

“I might see ice crystals flowing on the market, after which, like a snow machine, ice was forming on the harbor at SCU,” Dyson advised Mission Management, citing PlaceTuesday (25/6).

The SCU is designed to connect with the ISS airlock whereas astronauts are in custody to organize for the ultimate levels of an EVA launch. They had been nonetheless contained in the hatch when the leak occurred, with the outer door open, however they closed it a while after the spacewalk ended.

“It was a reasonably spectacular blizzard,” astronaut Butch Wilmore stated in a NASA reside broadcast.

That is the second time {that a} particular area shuttle mission has been canceled. The primary try on June 13 by astronauts Matt Dominick and Tracy Dyson was canceled resulting from Matt’s “spacesuit discomfort”.

The July 2nd spacewalk was additionally speculated to occur, however it’s unclear whether or not it is going to nonetheless occur below these circumstances.

The whole length of the spacewalk was 31 minutes, based mostly on the time elapsed between the go well with switching to inner energy and the repressurization of the crew’s airlock. This brings Tracy Dyson’s whole EVA time to 23 hours and 20 minutes in 4 spacewalks, and Mike Barratt’s whole time to five hours and 37 minutes in three EVAs.

(tim/dmi)