By DPA
Washington : A planned Sunday spacewalk to attach an expansion to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed to Monday due to unspecified “health issues”, officials at the US space agency NASA announced.
The spacewalk by astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, docked late Saturday with the ISS, has been rescheduled.
A NASA spokesman refused to clarify the nature of the health issue or identify any astronaut suffering problems.
German astronaut Hans Schlegel, who was scheduled to attach the European Space Agency’s Columbus module to the ISS in Sunday’s spacewalk with US astronaut Rex Walheim, has been removed from the planned Monday work.
US astronaut Stan Love, who was already scheduled for a spacewalk later in the mission, will replace Schlegel Monday.