source: AFP / NASA
23-12-2013
fault forced NASA astronaut suits to delay the repair of the International Space Station.
Engineer Rick Mastracchio mission and astronaut Michael Hopkins had trouble when conducting emergency repairs on the outside of the International Space Station. They were outside the station for nearly five and a half hours. Water appeared in overalls Mastracchio, he passed through the airlock into the interior of the station.
output associated with the repair of the damaged cooling station, planned for six and a half hours had to be shortened because Mastracchio complained of too low a temperature in the suit.
astronauts went into space, to urgently repair the malfunction of the cooling system of the space station, which was revealed on December 11. Has already removed the damaged pump the size of a large refrigerator, but installing a replacement flight control in Houston postponed for later. If you manage to solve the problems of the suit further output astronauts in space could take place on December 24.
Even before the cooling system repair station, NASA admitted that working to improve the aging space suits. Those currently in use were designed 35 years ago.
-afp
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