EMU Update

Spacesuit smoke alarm threatens NASA plans, MSNBC

“NASA’s already-tight schedule for assembly of the international space station is under new threat, this time because a trainee smelled smoke inside his spacesuit during a pressure-chamber test here on Earth. Until the event can be explained, plans for two critical spacewalks at the space station are on hold. And without those spacewalks, NASA would have to delay next month’s shuttle mission to deliver Europe’s long-awaited Columbus space lab. Such a delay could ripple down next year’s tight launch schedule and complicate NASA’s plans to finish construction of the space station by the end of 2010.”