A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station is called off after flight controllers notice a stream of liquid spewing from a docked spacecraft.
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The two cosmonauts were suited and ready to move a radiator from one module to another when the leak was spotted NASA said none of the seven members of the current International Space Station crew — three Russian cosmonauts, three US NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut — was ever in any danger. An official for Russia's mission control operations near Moscow was heard telling the pair in a radio transmission that their spacewalk was being cancelled while engineers worked to determine the nature and origin of the leak.
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