A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been called off at the last minute due to flight controllers noticing a stream of liquid spewing from a docked Soyuz spacecraft.
Key points:
- A NASA commentator described the problem as a coolant leak
- None of the of the members of the ISS were injured or in any danger, NASA said
- The two cosmonauts were suited and ready to move a radiator from one module to another when the leak was spotted
The spray of fluid, which was visible in NASA’s live video feed as a torrent of snowflake-like particles emanating from the rear section of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule, was described by a NASA commentator as a coolant leak.
NASA said none of the seven members of the current International Space Station crew — three Russian cosmonauts, three US NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut — was ever in any danger.
