CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA aborted a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday because of a dangerous water leak in an astronaut’s helmet that drenched his eyes, nose and mouth.
The leak was so bad that Luca Parmitano, Italy’s first spacewalker, couldn’t hear or speak as the spacewalk came to an abrupt end. He asked his spacewalking partner, Christopher Cassidy, for help getting back in.
“He looks miserable. But OK,” Cassidy assured Mission Control in Houston.
Read more in Wednesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.