Two American astronauts go out to troubleshoot

Two American astronauts will "walk" out of the International Space Station (ISS) on May 23 to replace a broken computer.

This is one of two computers that control important American systems on this space station.

According to a statement released on May 21 by the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA), in charge of the ISS station, Peggy Whitson and engineer Jack Fischer will be out in space for about 2 hours. This plan comes after the top important device above doesn't work on May 20.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer.

The incident has caused the $ 100 billion external orbital laboratory to operate based on a support system to transmit control signals to solar systems, heaters, radiators and many other devices of this lab.

NASA stressed that five crew members on ISS from the US, Russia and France are still safe after the incident.

NASA spokesman Dan Huot said earlier that the director of the ISS Peggy Whitson station had assembled and tested a spare electrical box to replace the faulty device, which was installed during the walk out. March 30 last time.

NASA's space walk last took place in December 2015 when two American astronauts left the ISS station to remove the brakes on the automatic conveyor of a machine arm.

With an alternate crew of astronauts, astronauts, the International Space Station (ISS) located 400km away from the Earth acts as a laboratory of biology, life science, material science, as well as observing astronomical phenomena and the motion of the Earth.