NASA postpones spacewalk hours before astronauts exit ISS
Two NASA astronauts were to complete a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on January 8, but the agency has postponed it indefinitely.
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke poses next to a spacesuit inside the Quest airlock of the International Space Station.
NASA on Wednesday delayed a scheduled spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) for two astronauts just hours before they were due to leave the orbiting laboratory.
The agency said in a this statement The postponement was due to a “medical concern that arose with a crew member on Wednesday afternoon.” The announcement came just four hours later NASA told The space station crew has completed preparations for this endeavor, formally known as extravehicular activity, or EVA. NASA did not provide any details about which astronaut was affected or the nature of the condition, citing medical confidentiality.
“The situation is stable,” the statement said. “NASA will share additional details, including a new date for the upcoming spacewalk, at a later date.”
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NASA astronauts Mike Finke and Zena Cardman were scheduled to blast off from the station around 8 a.m. EST on Jan. 8 for a six-and-a-half-hour project to install and prepare some new hardware for a future roll-out solar array. If time permitted, they were also expected to take photographs of the hardware and samples of the microorganisms living on the station’s exterior.
Other current ISS crew members are NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Russian astronauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Oleg Platonov and Sergei Mikaev, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. All seven crew members have been in space for more than five months.
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