Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had to call-off a routine spacewalk after flight controllers noticed a stream of particles spewing from a docked Soyuz spacecraft, a NASA webcast showed. A torrent of snowflake-like particles could be seen spraying from the rear section of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule in NASA’s live video feed. A liquid seems to be escaping from the spacecraft, possibly coolant, a NASA commentator said.
NASA clarified that none of the seven members of the current International Space Station (ISS) crew are thought to be in danger. The current crew includes three Russian cosmonauts, three US NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut.
The issue occurred right when crew commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dimitri Petelin suited up for the spacewalk to move a radiator from one module to another on the Russian segment of the ISS. A…
