“That was pretty easy”, Commander Scott Kelly said, according to a live broadcast of the spacewalk on Nasa television, after he hit the stuck brake handle and got the auto moving again.
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The US space agency announced last week that an unplanned spacewalk would likely be necessary, and mission managers decided after meeting Sunday to go ahead with the outing on Monday.
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The rail car’s brake was believed to have become stuck unexpectedly last week after it moved about four inches (10 centimetres) from its starting point. The section of the ISS where the Progress craft was docked will remain empty till a new delivery spaceship arrives and docks to it filled with science and supplies replenishing the Expedition 46 crew.
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The spacewalk was planned for three hours, and the astronauts planned to take care of a few other tasks if time permits.
This will be the 191st spacewalk for space station maintenance.
Astronauts are now performing an emergency spacewalk at the International Space Station. Spacewalks are wonderful to watch, but they’re much riskier for the astronauts, compared to the relative safety of being inside the ISS.
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:44 am EST (0844 GMT) and is due to reach the station on Wednesday.
After taking care of the issue with the MT, the astronauts spent the rest of the spacewalk routing an Ethernet cable that will one day connect to the Russian laboratory module, as well as retrieving tools that had been stored outside of the station and routing a second pair of cables that will ultimately support USA commercial crew vehicles when they are up and running.
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Kelly and Kornienko are in the midst of a yearlong space mission that will end in March.
