Phone home: Tim Peake fails to make contact from extraterrestrial mission

Lasting 3 to 3.5 hours spacewalk will start at 13Ł10 GMT.

PRIMARY school children had an out of this world experience watching British astronaut Tim Peake blast into space.

It will be third spacewalk for Scott Kelly (EV1, white suit with red stripes) and second for Tim Kopra (EV2, plain white suit).

American space agency NASA said that two astronauts aboard the global Space Station (ISS) have successfully completed their spacewalk on Monday in order to perform some repairs in the stations railcar.

Mr Peake arrived at the space station on Tuesday, December 15.

While Peake is not the first Briton to visit the ISS, he is the first qualified astronaut to enter space on a British passport.

The Mobile Transporter, which carries a robot arm along a rail attached to the truss, the station’s central “backbone”, became stuck on Wednesday.

The latching of the Mobile Transporter is not expected to present much difficulty. The walk from the International Space Station ended around 11:01 a.m. EST, according to a release. Their duties include getting the crew into their suits and out of airlock, while also interacting with mission control. “The cause of the stall is being evaluated, but experts believe it may be related to a stuck brake handle”, said the mission’s operations manager, Kenny Todd.

The spacewalk more than 250 miles above Earth was unplanned.

Answering questions from reporters gathered at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, he said the first two hours had been “pretty rough” and he had been feeling “disorientated and dizzy”.