Tim Peake, who on the mission became the aboriginal astronaut from Britain to airing in space, and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra, had accomplished the primary ambition of their airing if Kopra appear a baptize balloon had formed in his helmet.
"The aggregation is not in any crisis whatsoever," mission analyst Rob Navias said in a reside advertisement of the spacewalk on NASA TV.
Ending the spacewalk two hours aboriginal was a precaution, Navias added.
NASA anchored its flight rules afterwards a spacesuit beat by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano leaked during a spacewalk in July 2013, about causing him to drown.
Kopra, who was authoritative his third spacewalk, and Peake had replaced a bootless voltage regulator in the station's ability arrangement anon afterwards abrogation the station's airlock at about 8 a.m. EST/1300 GMT.
They were appointed to absorb added than six hours alfresco the station, a $100 billion analysis class that flies about 250 afar (400 km) aloft Earth, on added aliment chores.
That plan will be rescheduled, Navias said.
Peake, 43, a above army major, accursed off to the ISS as allotment of a six-month mission for the European Amplitude Bureau in December, acceptable the aboriginal Briton in amplitude back Helen Sharman catholic on a Soviet aircraft for eight canicule in 1991, and the aboriginal to do so beneath a British flag.
His mission has admiring boundless absorption in Britain, with the spacewalk beamed reside on account channels.
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