Astronauts cancel ISS spacewalk due to “spacesuit discomfort issue”
UPDATE: A later update by NASA provided no new information on why the spacewalk was canceled, but did announce a new date for the EVA, June 24th, while adding “The crew members on the station are healthy, and spacesuits are functioning as expected..”
My guess is that one of the astronauts had a personal but minor health issue, that out of privacy concerns NASA cannot reveal.
Original post:
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A spacewalk planned for today was postponed when the two astronauts involved stopped putting on their spacesuits and instead put them aside “due to spacesuit discomfort issue.”
That is all we know at this point. Was the issue a technical problem with the suits? Or was it something related to the astronauts themselves, such as one experienced stomach problems for instance?
No more details are as yet available. The NASA-designed American spacesuits used on spacewalks on ISS are very complicated and prone to technical problems. If that was the cause it could result in a serious delay before the next spacewalk takes place.
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UPDATE: A later update by NASA provided no new information on why the spacewalk was canceled, but did announce a new date for the EVA, June 24th, while adding “The crew members on the station are healthy, and spacesuits are functioning as expected..”
My guess is that one of the astronauts had a personal but minor health issue, that out of privacy concerns NASA cannot reveal.
Original post:
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A spacewalk planned for today was postponed when the two astronauts involved stopped putting on their spacesuits and instead put them aside “due to spacesuit discomfort issue.”
That is all we know at this point. Was the issue a technical problem with the suits? Or was it something related to the astronauts themselves, such as one experienced stomach problems for instance?
No more details are as yet available. The NASA-designed American spacesuits used on spacewalks on ISS are very complicated and prone to technical problems. If that was the cause it could result in a serious delay before the next spacewalk takes place.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This morning I read this story, then the simulated test transmission story, and I thought that it was related. Both stories are not related.
Jay: But they are related, in that both come from the same entity, NASA. Correlation might not be causation, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Note that NASA has announced an update on spacewalk cancellation. I have added it to the top of the post above.
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June 13, 2024 at 4:56 pm
Jay: But they are related, in that both come from the same entity, NASA. Correlation might not be causation, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”””
One of the problems with the “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” attitude is that it applies to all kinds of situations. Your above story on the lawsuit by the 8 former employees. The “environmental” groups with the launch sites. It is an attitude that encourages mud slinging from all sides to see what sticks.
john hare: Your point is well taken. However, it is also important to note a pattern. When a single organization makes repeated errors, then it is reasonable to recognize what that pattern might tell you about that organization.
I ain’t mud-slinging. I am simply noting this pattern, at NASA. I also recognize that it doesn’t apply to everyone there, in all situations. It seems to mostly spring from management.
What was the discomfort?
Hint: “Biden met the Pope”.
Repeat: “Biden met the Pope”.