U.S.
spacewalk was cancelled on June 24, 2024 due to a water leak in the
service and cooling umbilical unit (SCU) on Tracy Dyson's spacesuit.
Tracy
Dyson and Michael Barratt set their suits to battery power at 12:46 UTC and
opened the hatch to the space station's Quest airlock before reporting the
water issue.
"Oh
my goodness," said Tracy Dyson. "Water is flowing out of my SCU
guys."
"Yeah,
there is a lot of particulates floating around here," added Michael
Barratt. "There is water everywhere in here."
"Tracy,
if you can reconnect your SCU to the DCM [Display and Control Module], that is
the best way to stop this," radioed capcom Stephen Bowen from Mission
Control in Houston.
Once
Tracy Dyson reconnected her spacesuit cooling unit, the leak stopped but she
had to deal with ice on her gloves and concerns about where other ice deposits
had formed. Tracy Dyson closed the airlock hatch.
Tracy
Dyson and Michael Barratt worked with ground controllers to repressurize the
crew lock section of the airlock before returning inside the station's
equipment lock.
This
spacewalk had a duration of 31 minutes, officially ending 13:17 UTC. Tracy
Dyson has now logged 23 hours and 20 minutes on four EVAs. Michael Barratt now
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