Key Points
The two astronauts had begun suiting up and were scheduled to exit the Quest airlock at around to spend over 6 hours working in the vacuum of space...
Nasa was forced to cancel the planned spacewalk by astronauts Tracy C..
Dyson and Matt Dominick outside the International Space Station (ISS) less than hour before they were to exit the flying laboratory on Thursday...
However, about an hour before the planned start, Nasa announced that the crew had begun taking off their spacesuits...
The agency typically aims to resolve any issues and find the next available opportunity to carry out the planned tasks, given the complexity of spacewalk preparations and operations...
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