Two U.S. astronauts, Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy, conducted a spacewalk to repair a leak in the cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS).
The fault was detected on Thursday. Cassidy and Marshburn have to inspect and change the radiator defective which produces the ammonia leak, said the U.S. space agency (NASA).
output, which started at 12:44 GMT has lasted for five and a half hours, 30 minutes less than expected, and has concluded a successful 1814, as reported by NASA. According to experts, this spacewalk is unprecedented because it has been prepared in a very short time.
“Marshburn and Cassidy have returned to the ISS,” he tweeted in his account of the U.S. space agency.
According
said Friday the program director of the station, Michael Suffredini, is “a serious situation” , but noted that if this Saturday can not repair the cooling system, it is possible do so in subsequent walks.
NASA maintains
runoff does not pose any hazard to the six members of the crew of the ISS, which orbits 410 miles above Earth.
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