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:
——————
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.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuses to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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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.
“””Robert Zimmerman
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”.