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.

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One Response to “Scratch in spacesuit means sudden death?”

  1. [...] astronaut of any country has ever died as the result of a spacewalk. Although they may be risky, not long ago an astronaut had a tear in his spacesuit during a spacewalk. He didn’t even noti…. So, I personally think the risk of spacewalking is over-stated at this time. In addition, they [...]

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