Watch spacewalk: Astronauts perform 6 hour mission

Tim Peake’s historic first walk in space was ended early after a water bubble was detected in the helmet of his colleague Tim Kopra.

Tim Peake and Tim Kopra’s spacewalk has been officially terminated after a small “golfball” amount of water was discovered inside NASA astronaut Tim Kopra’s suit.

The astronauts were in no danger, but NASA curtailed the spacewalk as a precaution, flight director Royce Renfrew said during an interview on NASA TV on Friday.

British spaceman Timothy Peake and NASA’s Timothy Kopra need to replace an electronic box that failed two months ago, slashing station power by one-eighth. Peake is the first Briton to officiallywalk in space for the UK.

While Tim Peake is the eighth Brit to go into space, he is the first United Kingdom government-funded Brit to venture to space.

While Peake became the first astronaut to walk in space as a British astronaut, Michael Foale – a dual USA and British citizen – was the first person born in Britain to walk in space in 1995.

He is on a six-month mission with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Major Peake and U.S. astronaut Colonel Tim Kopra switched their spacesuits on to battery power at 7.48am (12.48pm Irish time), marking the official start of the floating debut for the British astronaut.

While tuning in, you can distinguish between the members of Team Tim by looking for Kopra who has red stripes on his suit, while Peake has none.

“This is nowhere near as severe as that incident was”, said Navias.

Once the inner hatch was open, they were expected to help the spacewalkers remove their suits and remove the water from Tim Kopra’s face.

According to the Associated Press, when Peake made his way toward the outside of the ISS, the station’s commandeer, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shouted, “Hey Tim, it’s really cool seeing that Union Jack [the national flag of the U.K.] go outside”.

“Looking great out there on the top of the world”, Wiseman radioed to the spacewalkers, who had to wait for night-time passes to carry out the work safely when the station’s solar panels are not receiving any charge. During the second half of the EVA, the astronauts will lay cables for new docking ports and reinstall a valve that was removed previous year. It’s being replaced by a spare dubbed Dusty; the spare has been on the space station since 1999.

Mr Peake said he felt “exhilarated” about his upcoming spacewalk but had “no time to dwell on these emotions”.