Ripped Glove Forces End to Spacewalk

By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

In this image from NASA TV mission specialist Tracy Caldwell shakes hands with international space station flight engineer Clay Anderson before a space walk on the international space station, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. At right is mission specialist Richard Mastracchio. (AP Photo/NASA TV)

(AP) -- NASA cut short a spacewalk by two astronauts outside the international space station Wednesday after one of them noticed a hole in the outer layer of his glove.

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