{"id":5088,"date":"2013-10-28T03:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2013-10-28T03:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:08:46","slug":"cause-of-iss-spacesuit-water-leak-still-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"Cause of ISS spacesuit water leak still unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The culprit that caused the leak in Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit<\/a>\u00a0that nearly drowned him has still not been completely isolated:\u00a0NASA Still Probing Cause Of Spacesuit Water Leak – Aviation Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think this problem is relevant to the endless arguments over Moon vs Mars in an exploration\/development priority list. There must be many such subtle problems that won’t come up until we see lots more activities in space and for longer periods. It is much easier to find and fix this sort of problem when earth is nearby than if it is 9 months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The culprit that caused the leak in Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit\u00a0that nearly drowned him has still not been completely isolated:\u00a0NASA Still Probing Cause Of Spacesuit Water Leak – Aviation Week. I think this problem is relevant to the endless arguments over Moon vs Mars in an exploration\/development priority list. There must be many such subtle problems … Continue reading Cause of ISS spacesuit water leak still unknown<\/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":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1k4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3460","url_meta":{"origin":5088,"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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