A spacewalk was suspended early Friday after an astronaut's space suit was found oxygen leakage, the Russian Mission Control said.

Two astronauts, US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who just stepped out of the International Space Station (ISS) a few minutes, were quickly ordered back after the pressure in a prime oxygen bottle in Fincke's space suit was found falling quickly.

The mission of the two astronauts is to repair one of four large gyroscopes that keep the station stable and its solar-power arrays pointed toward the sun as the complex orbits 400 kilometers above the earth.

Source: agencies