‘WICHO’”/> J. PEDREIRA ‘WICHO’ Parmitano Chris Cassidy and Luca had just started with the tasks of their spacewalk when a water leak that accumulated inside the spacesuit helmet Parmitano urgently forced to abort.
Parmitano began to notice water buildup while working on laying a cable data network for the International Space Station (ISS) that will connect the U.S. segment of the future Russian module Nauka, half an hour after starting the spacewalk.
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As a precautionary measure, the Italian astronaut, 36, drank all the water that was in the bag of water she wore to that effect if the leak came from there, but not seems to be the case, as the volume of water continued to rise.
Also, once again inside the station, it said that the water was in the town knew very rare, which may mean that the leak came iodized water system used to cool spacesuits, although the telemetry indicated no costume, so we have to review it thoroughly to give the origin of this.
Although his first intention was to continue to work soon, water accumulation was such that this started to get into your nose and mouth , so from the mission control decided to abort the walk immediately.
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course, that’s easier said than done, because although Parmitano was back in the Quest airlock just ten minutes after receiving the order, spent just over half an hour in total until he was pressurized and Luca could removing the helmet.
In fact, at one point there was so much water his helmet Parmitano could not hear or speak with the rest of his teammates on the ISS or with mission control and ultimately cost him even see because the water was left stuck to the face without going anywhere.
Fortunately, everything was a shock , and as for the tasks left undone, none of them was urgent, so no problem can be postponed for another spacewalk to date to be determined.
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