NASA To Hold Media Teleconference This Afternoon on Luca's Spacesuit Mishap
NASA will hold a media teleconference today, February 26, at 2:00 pm EST to discuss findings from its investigation into the events that caused European astronaut Luca Parmitano’s helmet to fill with water during a spacewalk last July.
Audio of the teleconference will be available on NASA’s news audio website. Participants are:
- Chris Hansen, chairman of the Mishap Investigation Board
- Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations
- Mike Suffredini, International Space Station Program Manager
The Mishap Investigation Board was created on July 23, 2013 following the July 16 incident when Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy were outside the space station performing what was intended to be a relatively routine 6.5 hour spacewalk. The spacewalk was terminated after 1 hour and 32 minutes as Parmitano’s helmet filled with water. He later gave a chilling account of what it was like to be “like a goldfish in a fishbowl.”
More details on today’s teleconference are available in NASA’s press release
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