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A Russian cosmonaut and his colleague venturing outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a spacewalk were told to ‘immediately’ leave the area after finding a ‘blob’ in space. Astronauts are trained not to panic, but we bet their hearts still skipped a beat or two. In the end, everything went well. And they eventually learned what the ‘blob’ actually …

The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now The next four souls who will fly …