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ISS Spacewalk Cut Short
RobertB-DC writes "The spacewalk that was intended to replace a balky power supply ended almost before it started, according to Spaceflight Now's Mission Status Center play-by-play. The Russian Orlan spacesuit worn by US astronaut Mike Fincke developed a problem with its oxygen supply (!), forcing both spacewalkers back to the airlock after less than 15 minutes. Mission control and the ISS crew are still debating what to do next."
I betcha that they had Taco Bell the previous night. That always wreaks havok with my oxygen supply.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
but the moonwalk will live on forever!
-ninjaneer
In soviet russia, spacewalks cut YOU short!
Mission control and the ISS crew are still debating what to do next.
Mission control: Go back out there!
ISS crew: No!
Given a choice between free speech and free beer, most people will take the beer.
IIS had problems, now it is ISS, I just hope that SSI are okay.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Maybe these guys could help.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
The Russian Orlan spacesuit worn by US astronaut Mike Fincke developed a problem with its oxygen supply (!), forcing both spacewalkers back to the airlock after less than 15 minutes.
Well, thank God for that parenthetical exclamation point to let me know it was a problem.
They just moved indoors to avoid being hit by David Beckham's penalty kick.
ya think they'd a been smart enough to take some friggin DUCT TAPE with 'em up there!... astronauts... indeeeeeed....
Strange...I connected to the suit via putty, was prompted for a login, entered 'root' and was able to login with no password. Seems like a pretty big security....hole!?! Ha! Thank you, I'll be here all week. In the dumpster. Eating your waste.
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Russian suits can't fit out the US airlock. Must be a metric conversion problem again.
I stole this sig.
Jetpacks, no. Jetboots, of course! How else will you rise up smugly from the surface to greet the cap?
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They're having problems designing a universal robotic foot for providing on-site kinetic impacts to solve minor unanticipated problems that would otherwise result in mission failure.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
They weren't out to fix the AE-35 unit by any chance I hope.
Perhaps a Breakdown and Recovery service instead of space tourism ?
Though Intergalactic Pizza Delivery gets my vote. I wonder if ISS would refuse to pay if it turned up a few minutes late?
Note to self: climb only sheer cliffs.
They are clearly in need of Duct Tape for those mission critical repairs!!
Is the correct term for what happened a "Wardrobe malfunction"
One of the most astute questions I've ever seen posted by an AC :)
;) Space isn't friendly, even with space suits.
Not only is it like putting your fuse box on the roof of your house, it's like putting your fuse box on the roof of your house, and instead of getting a ladder to go up to fix it, you're given a trampoline.
I'm an owl exterminator!
KOROLYOV, RUSSIA--U.S. and Russian scientists are increasingly excited about the Mir space station project, which promises to reveal more than has ever been known about the scientific relationship between weightlessness and mortal terror.
"By stranding our scientists on a dilapidated space station with faulty wiring, loose hardware, and malfunctioning air systems," NASA head Daniel Goldin said, "we have created extremely favorable conditions for learning about spaceborne panic."
The two Russians and one American on board the station are reportedly terrified beyond lucidity.
Among the groundbreaking experiments conducted on board Mir: a June 25 collision with a cargo craft that depressurized the Spektr module; last week's emergency power shortage, caused by a disconnected cable; and the periodic release of "dry ice" steam that simulates a shipboard fire. All have been deemed a huge success by agency heads.
"They are in a constant state of what aerospace scientists term 'mind-shattering terror,' frightened for their very lives," Russian mission director Vladimir Solovyov said. "And we have not even used the hull-mounted Alien puppet that taps on the window yet."
"We have also taken huge leaps in our understanding of the patterns created when one wets his pants in the weightlessness of space," Solovyov said. "The urine spreads out in an expanding sphere, something we did not expect."
Taking a break from his busy schedule, astronaut Michael Foale told ABC News reporters: "Where's my mommy?"
"Please tell me the access code to the Soyuz capsule," Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin said. "I would like to return to the chaotic government and widespread hunger of my homeland."
Scientists expect to gain even more useful data during an experiment at 3 a.m. tomorrow. As the astronauts sleep, whirling red siren lights will flood the cabin while an ear-splitting klaxon alarm jolts them awake.
Detailed scientific data will then be collected on such variables as open weeping, uncontrollable spontaneous defecation and unusual hair loss.
In all seriousness: