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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer took this space selfie during a spacewalk outside the ISS in March.Photo: NASANASA astronauts are getting ready to spacewalk once again. The space agency put a hold on the extravehicular activities while it investigated a potentially life-threatening problem with the suits, but NASA says spacewalks outside the International Space Station can resume. On Tuesday, NASA announced that it completed an investigation into the cause of a moisture layer buildingup inside the helmets of astronauts…

The country's new space chief said Russia will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, amid high tensions between Moscow and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. The announcement, while not unexpected, throws into question the future of the 24-year-old space station, with experts saying it would be extremely difficult - perhaps a "nightmare," by one reckoning - to keep it running without the Russians. NASA and its partners had hoped to continue operating it…