NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt were supposed to go on a spacewalk on Monday , June 24 – but a fault led to the wait 6 - and - a - half - hour walk being cut down to just 31 minutes . There was a water system leak from the overhaul and cooling umbilical whole on Dyson ’s spacesuit that was describe on the live stream by Dyson as spreading water   " everywhere " in the airlock .

The pair had already switched to the internal power of the suits – so technically the spacewalk had set about – and had opened the hatch to the Quest air lock . Then they became aware of the water exit .

“ The gang members were not in any risk as issue of the leakage . Dyson and Barratt set their suits to battery big businessman at 8:46 a.m. EDT and opened the International Space Station ’s Quest air lock hatch to the vacuum of space before cover the pee progeny , ” a NASA blog post about the eventreads . “ The spacewalk lasted a amount of 31 minutes , when the work party suits repressurized the crowd ringlet subdivision of the air lock at 9:17 ante meridiem ”

Spacewalking comes with risks – NASA estimate that aroundone - fifthof extravehicular activity ends up experience either serious incidents or close birdsong . If we need to remember H2O - leak ones , we could think of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drown in space . Inthat vitrine , water system was accumulating in the inside of his suit of clothes and helmet , slowly pee-pee its fashion across his face to his nose and mouth .

Nothing as dangerous and striking chance in this typesetter’s case . Dyson and Barratt were going to dispatch a incorrect electronics box from a communicating feeler in the starboard truss of the International Space Station . They were also going to collect samples to see if micro-organism can survive in the vacuum of space around the station .

The microbe collecting is an on-going series of investigation inside and outside the space station to empathise how microbes are adapting to the space surround . Some recent studies have shown that some have mutated in such a way that they areno longer similarto their Earthly counterparts .

The spacewalk has not been reschedule and it might push the next spacewalk , planned for July 2 , onward as well .