Scratch in spacesuit means sudden death?
Remember all those space movies where someone is floating around in space and their suit gets ripped and they suddenly die an agonizing death? Well, check this out:
NASA is incorporating changes to its spacewalk procedures after a small cut to the glove of an astronaut was discovered after an International Space Station (ISS) assembly mission last December.
That’s right, they didn’t even notice till well after the fact. Sometimes reality’s just not nearly as exciting as fiction.
Tags: International-Space-Station, ISS, nasa, spacesuit, Travel
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