NASA aborts spacewalk due to water leak in helmet

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA aborted a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday because of a dangerous water leak in an astronaut s helmet that drenched his eyes, nose and mouth.
"It s a lot of water," Italy s first spacewalker, Luca Parmitano, reported once he was back in the air lock of the International Space Station. The leak was so bad that Parmitano asked his spacewalking partner, American Christopher Cassidy, to help him back in.
The trouble cropped up barely an hour into what was to be a six-hour spacewalk to perform cable work and other routine maintenance. It was the astronauts