NASA Television
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News from the NOS•now, 01:11
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A Russian cosmonaut experienced to interrupt his spacewalk due to a difficulty with his spacesuit. Oleg Artemev himself discovered a voltage fluctuation in the batteries of his match.
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Flight manage then ordered the cosmonaut to promptly go to an ISS space station airlock. “He leaves almost everything and goes back again,” the flight chief declared through radio from the control center near Moscow. “Oleg, go back and plug your match into the station’s power provide.”
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“I recognize,” Artemev replied as he manufactured his way to the lock on the Russian facet of the ISS. With a sense of humor, he recommended to flight manage that Russian Orlan spacesuits should really be outfitted with photo voltaic panels from now on. “So we can recharge the batteries during the spacewalk.”
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NASA Tv set reported the difficulties dwell:
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Cosmonauts had been working to make the European robotic arm Era (mainly made in the Netherlands) operational. They installed two cameras on the arm. They were being also meant to transfer a management panel and operate a exam with the Period, but that never ever took place.
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The spacewalk was meant to final more than 6 hours, but was stopped after 2.5 several hours thanks to a technical problem. There was no rapid danger to Artemev, but if his suit discharged, he would not be ready to converse with the flight management and cosmonaut he was conducting the spacewalk with. The operate on the Period will now be carried out at a afterwards stage.
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Points don’t usually go completely wrong with room suits on the ISS. In 2013, a possibly fatal predicament happened when h2o from a cooling technique in Luca Parmitano’s American suit commenced leaking into his helmet. As a final result, the Italian astronaut could hardly see, hear or say everything, but even now managed to reach the airlock in time.
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