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In the near future, foreign astronauts with the ISS will not go into outer space in American spacesuits because of emergency in August when in a helmet European astronaut began to flow water.
“Until the end of the year there will be no spacewalk. In fact, we now have there is no way to exit the American segment stations “, – said on Wednesday the program manager for international NASA operations Michael Baker, reports Russia Today with reference to Interfax
According to him, work is underway to find out the reasons for marriage. The ISS has already delivered equipment with which you can identify the malfunction, but so far it has not helped. Reports that during space entry, water enters the spacesuit, received from astronauts and earlier. But the last case turned out to be the most critical. In the suit Luke Parmitano from the European space agency has accumulated too much water.
“We have two spacesuits on board and we’re not sure that there are problems with they won’t arise either, ”Baker said.
He also added that, if necessary, an urgent exit to deep space for example emergency, american astronauts will still use their own spacesuits, not Russian “Eagles”.
Recall, July 16, NASA urgently interrupted exit to the open space at the international space station of the Italian astronaut Luke Parmitano due to water leakage in his spacesuit.
NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy and European astronaut space agency Luca Parmitano went into outer space on a few minutes earlier than planned – at 15.56 Moscow time. The closure of hatches was scheduled for 22.30 Moscow time.
During this time, astronauts had to complete a number of tasks, in In particular, lay a cable for LAN deployment Ethernet technology for the multifunctional laboratory module (MLM), the launch of which is scheduled for the end of this year.
The experts put forward the two most likely versions of the contingency situations: leak from the cooling system of a spacesuit or leak liquid from a cylinder of water that astronauts drink during work in outer space.
NASA said it hopes to find out the cause of the problems with spacesuit, but the results of the investigation have not yet been made public.
The head of the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov previously reported that an emergency could not have occurred due to problems with the spacesuit cooling system, adding that what happened will not affect the timing of spacewalks from the ISS Russian program.
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