Russian spacewalk is cut off early due to a spacesuit issue.
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This week, a glitch with cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's spacesuit forced him to end a Russian spacewalk from the International Space Station.
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On August 17, Artemyev was repairing the recently installed European robotic arm that was affixed to the Nauka module of the space station
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Controllers discovered a malfunction with Artemyev's suit's power system around two hours into the spacewalk mission and promptly instructed him to re-enter the space station
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Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian flight director situated at a mission control facility close to Moscow, gave Artemyev the order to "drop everything" and return immediately to the airlock
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Artemyev arrived in the airlock without incident, and officials from NASA assured the public that he was not in danger
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Despite the fact that any spacesuit-related problem that arises during a spacewalk definitely has the potential to be serious
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For a while, Matveev worked alone when Artemyev returned to the space station
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The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits that American and European astronauts use for spacewalks from the International Space Station (ISS) are different from the Russian-made Orlan spacesuits that both cosmonauts were using
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Artemyev's spacesuit was experiencing a battery power issue, according to NASA, which means the suit was displaying "odd battery readings."