NASA could have prevented spacewalker's close call

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA could have prevented last summer's near-drowning of a spacewalking astronaut at the International Space Station, an investigation panel concluded Wednesday.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water July 16 during his second spacewalk in a week. He barely made it back inside alive.

Looks like all that Muslim Outreach is really doing wonders, right?

All praise to allah that nobama is directing NASA to spend its funds correctly, instead of wasting it on research and life saving equipment. To paraphrase "May a thousand pregnant fleas from a thousand pregnant camels infest nobamas pubic hairs".

YouTube, 90 seconds:

Watch the new black Director of NASA spin your head around, as he beamingly gushes that his new priority #1 at NASA is MUSLIM OUTREACH:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcNUq77_LM

Hard to believe, but true.

What has become of NASA ?????

The video of the water in the helmet at the article is amazingly terrifying if you think about trying to breath without inhalation.......

But worse are these excepts from the article

NASA almost ended up with another disaster following Parmitano's close call. The day after his near-drowning, the astronauts used a vacuum cleaner to dry the spacesuit and accidentally sucked oxygen out of a tank. "The hazardous mix of electricity and pure O2" could have sparked a fire, the report stated.

They used an electric vacuum and sucked up pure oxygen ?!? They had suits that worked, but they apparently enhanced them, didn't properly test them and then thought they'd try to recreate Apollo I this time in orbit ????

U.S. spacewalks were put on hold after the incident. An exception was made right before Christmas so two U.S. astronauts could repair a crippled cooling system at the orbiting outpost. As a precaution, they had makeshift snorkels and water-absorbent pads in their helmets, but there were no problems.

wonkowasright said: "The video of the water in the helmet at the article is amazingly terrifying ..."

Yes, but I wouldn't estimate the amount of water shown in the video to be as much as the liter and a half (about a quart and a half) which plagued the astronaut.

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