Russian cosmonauts were told to 'drop everything and go right back' after a spacewalk emergency.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was forced to return to the International Space Station airlock after an electrical problem developed in his spacesuit.
Alongside Denis Matveev, Oleg headed outside the International Space Station at around 13:53 pm on Wednesday to begin a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk.
However, Oleg, of his two astronauts working on Wednesday, said an electrical problem in his spacesuit caused Moscow ground control to prematurely cancel a normal spacewalk. U.S. and Russian officials said they had to return because they were forced to terminate.
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