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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano gives a dramatic recounting of the nearly disastrous space suit water leak<\/a> he experienced during his spacewalk on July 16th outside the International Space Station: EVA 23: exploring the frontier – Luca Parmitano<\/a><\/p>\n

As I move back along my route towards the airlock, I become more and more certain that the water is increasing. I feel it covering the sponge on my earphones and I wonder whether I\u2019ll lose audio contact. The water has also almost completely covered the front of my visor, sticking to it and obscuring my vision. I realise that to get over one of the antennae on my route I will have to move my body into a vertical position, also in order for my safety cable to rewind normally. At that moment, as I turn \u2018upside-down\u2019, two things happen: the Sun sets, and my ability to see \u2013 already compromised by the water \u2013 completely vanishes, making my eyes useless; but worse than that, the water covers my nose \u2013 a really awful sensation that I make worse by my vain attempts to move the water by shaking my head.<\/p>\n

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Last I heard, the leak problem has not been fully explained, though it is believe the water came from the coolant system. The suit will be brought back to earth by a Dragon<\/a> capsule after SpaceX<\/a> makes there next cargo delivery to the ISS, currently scheduled for next January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano gives a dramatic recounting of the nearly disastrous space suit water leak he experienced during his spacewalk on July 16th outside the International Space Station: EVA 23: exploring the frontier – Luca Parmitano As I move back along my route towards the airlock, I become more and more certain that the … Continue reading Luca Parmitano tells of the EVA in which his helmet filled with water<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-living-in-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-13V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3460","url_meta":{"origin":4087,"position":0},"title":"ISS spacewalk canceled after water leak in spacesuit","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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's helmet from a leak and they had to cancel the EVA and return quickly to the airlock. 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