NASA calls off spacewalk at last minute as astronaut suit malfunctions

Two US astronauts abandoned plans to exit the International Space Station to conduct maintenance on June 24 due to a spacesuit malfunction, Report informs referring to CNN.

NASA officials called off the spacewalk because of a water leak in the cooling unit of one of the astronauts’ spacesuits.

The leak, which affected the suit donned by NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, sprang up just after the suits were transferred to battery power just before they exited the space station.

The cooling unit on the spacesuits are designed to keep the wearers at a comfortable temperature while carrying out their work. Dyson and her crewmate Mike Barratt were set to remove a faulty electronics box from a communications antenna on the space station’s exterior.