Space Station Spacewalk Ended Early for Malfunction

Outside the International Space Station, a spacewalk by Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency was cut short July 16 after Parmitano reported a buildup of water in the helmet of his U.S. spacesuit. The spacewalk, which lasted only 1 hour and 32 minutes, was the second by the duo in as many weeks, designed to continue rigging cables for the future arrival of a Russian laboratory module and to conduct other maintenance work. The two spacewalkers completed only one task each before the excursion was ordered to end early. Parmitano was never in any danger and none of the tasks scheduled on the spacewalk were considered urgent or time-critical. It was the sixth spacewalk in Cassidy's career and the second for Parmitano.

[hackneysaregreat]

Good they were safe, it was really scary.

Great video, thanks!

[moondingo]

Wonderful coordination from the whole team, well done, happy to see you still breathing Luca! ;)*

[NavidIsANoob]

These astronauts should start using GoPros on their helmets and around the station.

[karebu]

Thanks for the transparency - the good and the bad, NASA.

[customer]

Amazing ! Bravo for gestion of Stress ! Vi

[monorbyar]

actually the 16mm camera bring with the appolo mission have a incredible image quality.

[blitsed]

of course, I am pretty sure it would be a huge upgrade...a non-space-rated camera, not tested in radiations&vacuum, with a battery life of about 2hrs when the average EVA lasts about 5-7 hours...I wonder why they haven't already tried it!

[Tonicwine]

The cameras are not installed in the space station for youtube. The cameras are very important instruments for minotoring EVA's, the station and many other things.... the videos just happen to get uploaded to youtube.

[hlab]

Lots of scrambling once he is inside but not enough effort to document what exactly is leaking. Now they have quite a job finding where the leak was.

[JerokTerojokke]

I love how her hair is flying everywhere

[Nighthawke]

That poor fellow looked so miserable from being inside that aquarium. They need to keep a suction device handy for those kind of events. I mean, they had a large amount of water get away from them in the bay, with potential of causing havoc.

[CmdrGendoIkari]

It's possible a servo that moves the dish, or the software controlling the servos was having a glitch of some kind. They'll resolve the issue.

[drussell]

Its the steps for taking off the EVA Suit.

[reecedouglass]

Wait a second, you are going to be an astronaut yet you couldn't understand why the satellite has trouble? We are all officially doomed!

[gforce]

That was a good one :P The other one was "It's either sweat or urine!" i hope it wasn't that!

[CmdrGendoIkari]

They make this stuff look pretty routine most of the time, but yes, a space suit malfunction can indeed get the astronaut in it killed.

[essay]

"Parmitano was never in any danger" in your description is inaccurate, I think.

[monorbyar]

The video uploaded by NASA was in 720p but the images aren't in 720p.

[AldoBarbieri]

Ma cosa è successo esattamente? Che liquido era? But what exactly happened? That liquid was?

[Kenabukanyo]

Why the space station looks like a giant piece of junk ?