Water In NASA Astronaut’s Helmet Cuts Short Spacewalk

As Peake climbed out of the space station, American astronaut Scott Kelly positioned a camera from inside so that the British flag on the arm of Peake s spacesuit was visible to viewers watching live on NASA television.

About three hours into Friday’s spacewalk, Kopra, 52, reported that his helmet pad was damp and a ball of water had collected in his helmet, prompting NASA to end the mission.

Shortly after flight director Royce Renfrew at mission control learned of the dampness in Kopra’s helmet, he chose to cut short the spacewalk.

After countless hours of training, British astronaut Tim Peake stepped out of the airlock aboard the International Space Station on Friday – and boldly took a selfie. The suit was refurbished afterward, and NASA says Kopra used the same suit for a spacewalk last month without any problem. The two astronauts were supposed to spend the remainder of the planned six-and-a-half hour walk routing cables, which would have supported the docking of future NASA commercial crew vehicles.

Similar incident took place with Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano who went on spacewalk in July 2013.

The first opportunity to start the nighttime job comes at 8:37 am (1337 GMT), NASA commentator Rob Navias said. That means they’ll only have about 30 minutes to replace the broken part. Officials will also give instructions to the astronauts using both first and last names to avoid confusion.

Astronaut Tim Peake begins fix work on his first spacewalk.

Mission Control assured the spacewalkers they had enough time, as the two struggled to bolt down the spare unit.

Kopra in the airlock as Peake suits up in a SAFER emergency jet pack. There was a brief moment of concern when a sensor on Kopra’s spacesuit failed, setting of the carbon dioxide alarm.

Peake, the United Kingdom’s first astronaut, is performing a first spacewalk of his career.

Major Peake, a former Army Air Corps and helicopter test pilot, is the first Briton aboard the ISS and the first fully British professional astronaut employed by a space agency. In the meantime, the station relied on the seven other power channels.