Two astronauts from NASA class=”c5″> began a spacewalk Saturday to try to correct an ammonia leak in the International Space Station (ISS), reported the U.S. space agency.
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U.S. astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy began the trek to correct the ammonia leak, discovered last day 9 in the cooling system on the space station.
Both astronauts traveled to the ISS in 2009 on the shuttle Endeavour, and made a trek to replace a battery in the same area where ammonia leak identified.
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spacewalks rarely decide on the fly , as on this occasion, but NASA wanted to inspect the cooling system and correct the fault.
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According to authorities, the team of six astronauts not in danger and the ISS has enough energy for its operations, but NASA had to turn off the power source of one of the eight solar panels that supply to the station.
On Friday, the program director of the IEE, Michael Suffredini class=”c5″> , said during a press conference that it is a “serious situation”, but emphasized that the station can operate without problems. According Suffredini suspected ammonia leak due to space junk that interferes with a tube in the radiator.
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