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.
abcnews.go.comSubmitted by OvidPerl t3_121eza5 in todayilearned
sonofabutch t1_jdm8nyw wrote
This is like one of those ancient prophecies where a man is told he’ll die in a specific way and he tries to game it, but fate can’t be denied. (“You will be killed by lightning” — so he never leaves the house, and then lightning strikes a tree which falls on the house and crushes him.)
“You will die by drowning”
Oh yeah? I’ll go to outer space, no water there!