Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
NASA astronaut Mike Barratt comes into the International Space Station following a spacewalk halted after 31 minutes on June 24, 2024.We'll have to wait a while to see NASA astronauts step outside the International Space Station again.on July 2, but that excursion has been pushed back until the end of July, agency officials announced this afternoon .
The delay will give mission teams more time to investigate what happened on the most recent extravehicular activity , which occurred on Monday . NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mike Barratt were supposed to work outside the ISS for about 6.5 hours, but they had to wrap up after just 31 minutes when Dyson's spacesuit began
Teams on the ground have not yet been able to figure out the root cause of the leak, which occurred not in the suit itself but in an"umbilical," which is a line that connects to the suit and services it."So, we want to give the team enough time to go understand what happened on this one and make sure we don't have to make any changes," he added.
The upcoming, now-delayed spacewalk will also feature Dyson and Barratt.
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