A NASA astronaut, about to leave the airlock to embark on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, was alarmed to discover water squirting from her spacesuit and covering her visor with ice., astronaut Tracy Dyson discovered the leak just moments after switching her suit to battery power. The umbilical cooling unit attached to her suit started leaking water, forcing NASA to cancel her and fellow astronaut Mike Barratt's imminent spacewalk.
"Just like a snow cone machine, there was ice forming at that port."affecting the aerospace giant's plagued Starliner spacecraft, which was meant to return two astronauts back to Earth several weeks ago.In the case of the most recent water issue, Dyson successfully plugged the leak by reconnecting the umbilical unit.