“There’s literally water everywhere here now,” Barratt said.
The duo were not in danger, according to NASA.
The astronauts were supposed to remove a faulty communications box and collect microbe samples from outside the orbiting laboratory. The spacewalk was planned for nearly seven hours, but lasted only a half hour.
Earlier this month, a spacewalk was postponed after another astronaut experienced “spacesuit discomfort.”
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