A cosmonaut was rushed back to the International Space Station on Wednesday, the US space agency says.
A Russian cosmonaut had to urgently abandon his spacewalk "due to a battery power issue" on his spacesuit, the US space agency Nasa says.
It says Oleg Artemyev was ordered back by Russian controllers on the ground to the airlock of the International Space Station on Wednesday.But he could have lost the ability to communicate with fellow spacewalker Denis Matveev, 39, and the controllers. "Drop everything and go back," Mr Matveev was told, the AFP news agency reports, citing Nasa's live English translation broadcast.Mr Matveev returned to the airlock shortly afterwards.
During the spacewalk, the two cosmonauts had managed to complete the installation of two cameras on the European robotic arm on the ISS, Nasa says.It's not the first reported incident on the ISS.The leak was so bad that Luca Parmitano, Italy's first spacewalker, could not hear or speak as the spacewalk came to an abrupt end.
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