NASA Press Conference This Afternoon on Spacewalk Problem
NASA will hold a press conference this afternoon to discuss the problem that developed this morning with Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit that forced an early termination to a spacewalk.
The press conference will be at 4:30 pm ET and broadcast on NASA TV.
The planned 6.5 hour spacewalk had to be terminated after about 1.5 hours when Parmitano’s spacesuit helmet began filling with water. The spacesuits are liquid cooled, so one possibility is that a coolant loop sprang a leak. Parmitano, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, both safely returned to the interior of the International Space Station.
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