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Spacewalk Aborted When Water Fills Astronaut's Helmet
astroengine writes "A planned six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station came to a dramatic and abrupt end on Tuesday when water started building up inside the helmet of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy were less than an hour into their spacewalk, their second in a week, when Parmitano reported that his head felt wet. 'My head is really wet and I have a feeling it's increasing,' Parmitano reported to ground control teams at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Parmitano returned safely to the space station interior, but the cause of the leak was not immediately known."
Would have sucked to be the first person to drown in outer space.
Nobody wants to be known as the first astronaut to drown in space.
There is water in space!
This story is all wet, but at least it holds its water.
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What will the government do to stop these leaks?!
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let's face it - he peed.
What next, "Uh, Houston. I smell something awful in my suit. I need to go back in." after burrito night on the ISS?
It was just a small malfunction in the waste extraction system. Self limiting to be sure.
I've been trying to warn the public about the inherent dangers of DHMO for years, but my cries have fallen on deaf ears. Perhaps someone at NASA will listen now.
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I'm glad our guys and gals at NASA are so professional. I would not make a very good mission control team member in this circumstance.
Depends.
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Fills... I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Sounds like it was a leak in the inner-jacket cooling system that circulates water around the astronaut's body. Can't be a fun experience though,
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Just sayin... could explain the whole problem.
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The most obvious source I can think for this would be a leak in the water cooling suit astronauts wear to keep cool while in the space suit.
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Sweat possibly. Or, he was hallucinating. Or, worse an alien got in his spacesuit.
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NASA's first attempt to launch goldfish into space goes awry when astronauts accidentally mix up the experiment and their EVA suit .
NASA insists the goldfish are fine and experienced only minimal distress during their brief EVA.
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They're a few decades early... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waters_of_Mars
I bet it was grease.
As long as the fluid did not have a GREEN color. ITV Properties would have sued NASA for plagiarizing Gerry Anderson's UFO "Ordeal" episode. [cue Barry Gray sound effect]
Fucking hell - those Americans will stop at nothing!
*note to NSA: I'm joking - please don't arrest/torture/"render" me!
Had he left a tube of biscuit dough in the back of his space-suit?
(OK, this is *very* obscure)
I know the suits use water cooling and there's also a drinking water supply system, so this causes a minor inconvenience. It wasn't like when Ed White did the first US spacewalk and his suit inflated to a size such that he couldn't get back into the Gemini Capsule. Some think he was just trying to get some extra spacewalk time but that seems a bit more like a real show stopper. In this case the guy just got a wet head and a shorted out comm system.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
A minor malfunction with a piece of industrial equipment, caught in time, and no injury or loss of life. How on Earth is this deemed a worthy story to promote?
"I don't know where this water is coming from" ...really
If only Humans had some method for consuming and then excreting water...
See Homer Simpson for details.
Of course I am assuming it is water and not some non-drinkable coolant liquid.
In space, no one can hear you gargle....
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...I'd be sweating my ass off too! Well, he was sweating from his head.... filled his damned helmet!
Ground Control: "You're supposed to do that BEFORE you go outside."
It's okay - you breathed it for nine months once.
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Eric just wants some peace and quiet.
Obamacare is causing equipment failures in space or some other Obamaphobic rhetoric.
The crew broke their water nozzle when re-entering the LM and flooded the floor of the space craft with water. Some of it had to be dumped overboard in cans the next time they decompressed.
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
In the novel "Have Space Suit -- Will Travel", Kip and Peewee are on the moon and trying to escape the bad guys by walking to the nearest lunar base. Peewee complaints about being thirsty. Kip, in his professional grade, if obsolete, space suit has a water nipple and he is momentarily incensed that Peewee's moon-tourist space suit doesn't. But then he realizes that it would probably be a bad idea because a tourist might bite the nipple off and drown in the suit. (At least that's the way I remember it.) BTW -- according to Wikipedia, there may be a movie in the works, based on this novel.