Your spacesuit ran into a problem and needs to restart
There are two things a spacewalker doesn't want to hear: "Can you turn it off and turn it on again?" and "What's that hissing sound?"
The IT solution of the ancients reached orbit yesterday as one of a pair of astronauts tasked with fitting a new solar array to the International Space Station (ISS) had to make his way back to the airlock in order to restart his spacesuit.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was not in any great danger during what the US space agency delicately called an "issue" with his spacesuit's display and control module (designed to provide a spacewalker with information on the status of the suit). Controllers also noted a spike in the pressure reading for his sublimator (used to keep things cool) and so sent the astronaut back to the airlock to perform a restart.
Kimbrough connected his suit back to the ISS umbilicals for the restart and, when the teams ascertained the procedure was successful, returned to assist ESA's Thomas Pesquet in fitting the new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA).
