{"id":3460,"date":"2013-07-17T02:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2013-07-17T02:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:48:32","slug":"iss-spacewalk-canceled-after-water-leak-in-spacesuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"ISS spacewalk canceled after water leak in spacesuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of an EVA on the International Space Station today by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Amercian Christopher Cassidy, water soon began to build up inside Parmitano&#8217;s helmet from a leak and they had to cancel the EVA and return quickly to the airlock. The cause of the lead is not yet understood\u00a0 : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightnow.com\/station\/exp36\/16eva\/index2.html#.UeYDZqzi2mA\" target=\"_d\">Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak &#8211; Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here was a NASA briefing on the aborted EVA:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7YpCXpkn4Vo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of an EVA on the International Space Station today by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Amercian Christopher Cassidy, water soon began to build up inside Parmitano&#8217;s helmet from a leak and they had to cancel the EVA and return quickly to the airlock. The cause of the lead is not yet understood\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISS spacewalk canceled after water leak in spacesuit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-living-in-space","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-TO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5768,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5768","url_meta":{"origin":3460,"position":0},"title":"Update on ISS spacewalks to fix cooling system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA astronauts will make up to three spacewalks starting on Dec. 21st to fix a pump valve in the cooling system. 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