Briton Tim Peake’s historic ISS spacewalk is cut short

Friday’s spacewalk will be Kopra’s third time in the infinite nothingness of space.

It was his counterpart, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who called off the mission two hours early when he noticed water in his helmet, Space.com reported. The pair removed a voltage regulator that failed two months ago, cutting the station’s power by one-eighth, and replaced it with a spare.

The whole spacewalk should take six hours 20 minutes.

British astronaut Tim Peake has ventured outside the International Space Station into the open space, becoming the first British person to have performed a spacewalk.

“This is nowhere near as severe as that incident was”, said Navias, as he narrated Kopra’s return to the airlock live on Nasa television.

“Today’s exhilarating #spacewalk will be etched in my memory forever – quite an incredible feeling!” Water in the sublimator cooling component can condense when the suit is repressurized after a spacewalk, causing a small amount of water to push into the helmet, NASA said.

He became the first spacewalker to wear the Union Jack on the shoulder of his suit.“Were all watching, no pressure!” Former Beatle Paul McCartney said via Twitter. Both the astronauts had finished the primary goal of their outing when Tim Kopra reported the leak in his helmet.

Back then, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano’s helmet and suit filed between one and one and a-half liters of water.

The two astronauts had already successfully restored full power to the International Space Station (ISS) by replacing a broken electronic box.

Peake is Britain’s first professional astronaut and the first British astronaut to fly as a member of the European Space Agency.

The ISS circles the Earth every 90 minutes, and spends 31 of those minutes in the dark.

But Peake is the first to do so while officially representing his country for the European Space Agency.

“A proud moment”, said Peake, as he floated outside the airlock on a mission that included preparing the outpost for new commercial space taxis. He had to cut the session short – “for good reasons”. While no astronaut has ever perished during a spacewalk, it is at the end of the day, walking in space.