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Beli_Mawrr t1_jdmomji wrote

Reply to comment by Tribaal in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl

You could poke a hole and then plug it if you wanted to. If you ended up just plugging it with whatever nearest, including skin, you would end up with a hickey but nothing else.

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Paladin327 t1_jdn26qf wrote

It’s not like poking a small hole in a space suit would cause instant decompression of the entire suit. The difference in pressure isn’t big enough for that. There was a 2mm hole on a spacecraft docked with the ISS, and it was determined that was no danger to the station and could easily be repaired

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Beli_Mawrr t1_jdn4bb1 wrote

Right, that's what I'm saying. Pop a tiny hole in it, Watney-style, then the vacuum of space hopefully sucks the water out through it. When it's done, plug the hole again. If it gets bad again, open 'er back up!

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