The suits are officially off the table until they figure out what went wrong.
The spacesuits that allow astronauts to venture outside of the International Space Station have been declared "no-go" for upcoming spacewalks.
"Until we understand better what the causal factors might have been during the last EVA with our EMU, we are no-go for nominal [extra-vehicular activity]," Dana Weigel, deputy manager of the space station program at the Johnson Space Center, told reporters on Tuesday, as quoted by. "So we won't do a planned EVA until we've had a chance to really address and rule out major system failure modes.
While the Parmitano incident has yet to be repeated, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron recently found water inside German astronaut Matthias Maurer's helmet after he had performed a spacewalk in March.
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