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Closing on why Parmitano's Suit was Filling up with Water

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
July 30, 2013
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NASA suspects life-support pack in spacewalk emergency, Florida Today
NASA engineers are narrowing in on the cause of the dangerous spacesuit water leak that could have drowned Italy’s first spacewalker, officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, Luca Parmitano and crewmates aboard the International Space Station started unpacking a Russian space freighter that hauled up three tons of supplies and a spacesuit repair kit over the weekend.
Engineers “are looking at what steps to take next, this week,” NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. “They actually have isolated the failure to the spacesuit’s Primary Life Support System, which is essentially the backpack of the suit.

Marc’s update: NASA released a video this morning with Chris Cassidy talking about the faulty suit.

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy discussed the ongoing efforts to solve a problem with crewmate Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit during a downlink video July 30. Cassidy demonstrated the suit and discussed some of the troubleshooting activities to identify the problem that caused water intrusion in Parmitano’s helmet during a spacewalk conducted by the two astronauts on July 16.

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