After getting the toxic ammonia on the space suits, the spacewalking astronauts had to take extra safety precautions. The toxic ammonia was leaked from the international space stations external cooling system. Two astronauts named Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins faced no trouble when they tried to remove and vent the old jumper cables which would remove the remaining ammonia that was still lingering in the lines. The amount of ammonia that spewed out of the first hose made the mission control worried some of the frozen white flakes might have settled on their suits. Some icy crystals may have contacted Hopkins helmet even though the stream of ammonia was spewed away from the astronauts and the space station. All this that happened made the Mission Control conservative and required inspections.
The first suit of the astronauts was checked by Hopkins and found nothing on it. Ammonia could contaminate the cabin of the space station so the NASA did not want the ammonia to get inside it which would have caused a risk. The astronauts stayed away of the nozzles and used long tools to vent the hoses so that the risk of getting in contact of the ammonia is lessened. After the removing the ammonia from the hose, the hose was then moved to the more central location near the NASA hatch, in case it’s needed on the opposite end of the station. The astronauts spent almost seven hours which was enough time to bake of the ammonia residue from the suit of the astronauts. But the astronauts were still asked to wear gloves while handling the suit to take out the worst-case risk involved. The crew mates also said that both Hopkins and Glover did not smell ammonia of their suit and were good to go. The hose work which was to be completed one week ago during a spacewalk, was put off with the other odd jobs due to the power grades took longer than they expected.
