Astronaut Scott Parazynski of STS-120 conducted a 7-hour, 19-minute spacewalk to repair (essentially sew) a damaged solar panel which helps supply power to the International Space Station. NASA considered the spacewalk dangerous with potential risk of electrical shock. Since construction started, the has had to deal with several maintenance issues, unexpected problems and failures. These incidents have affected the timeline,. On 2 January 2004, a minor air leak was detected on board the ISS. At one point, five pounds of air per day were leaking into space and the internal pressure of the ISS dropped from nominal 14.7 psi down to 14.0 psi, although this did not pose an immediate threat to On 18 September 2006, the crew activated a smoke alarm in the Russian segment of the International Space Station when fumes from one of the three oxygen generators triggered momentary fear about a possible fire. The crew initially reported a. On 30 October 2007, during and flight day 7 of STS-120's visit to ISS, following the repositioning of the P6 truss segment, ISS and crew members began the deployment of the two solar arrays on the truss. The first array deployed without. The Columbia disaster did not involve the ISS, but did impact the ISS construction schedule and maintenance. The on 1 February 2003 (during, a non-ISS mission) resulted in a two-and-a-half-year suspension of the US Early on January 1, 2005, the Elektron generator, repaired in 2004, failed again, and the crew had to rely again on onboard oxygen. The Elektron generator was later fixed. On 14 June 2007, during and flight day 7 of 's visit to ISS, a computer malfunction on the Russian segments at 06:30 UTC left the station without thrusters, oxygen generation, carbon dioxide scrubber, and other environmental control.