Nasa halts spacewalk after glitch

Nasa managers have cut short the spacewalk by two Endeavour shuttle astronauts because one of their carbon dioxide sensors stopped working.

Nasa managers have cut short the spacewalk by two Endeavour shuttle astronauts because one of their carbon dioxide sensors stopped working.

The astronauts were nearly five hours into a routine planned six-and-a-half hour spacewalk at the International Space Station when mission controllers noticed that Gregory Chamitoff’s spacesuit sensor was not working.

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