Damning accident report sheds light on NASA's communication failures. Feb. 26, 2014— -- NASA admitted today that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned during his July 16 spacewalk ...

An Italian astronaut who experienced a harrowing near-drowning inside his spacesuit during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station is telling his story. In a blog post last week ...

Italian astronaut details what it was like to almost ... I frantically think of a plan," says Luca Parmitano, describing how he nearly drowned in his helmet during a spacewalk at the International ...

The Italian astronaut who nearly drowned when his helmet filled with water during a July 16 spacewalk took to his blog this week to describe the experience. Luca Parmitano, 36, started the post by ...

Though Reisman appears never to have spoken previously about the harrowing experience, he's not the only astronaut to experience a near-drowning space. During a 2013 spacewalk with NASA astronaut ...

In 2013, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano became terrifyingly close to drowning while venturing outside of the ISS when his helmet filled with water, "covering his eyes, nose and ...

It was on that day that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano stepped outside ... The choice then would be between death by drowning in the fish bowl of your helmet or death by instant suffocation ...

But drowning is probably not something you ever thought astronauts had to worry about. But last month, during a spacewalk, astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in space. Parmitano recently ...

I just want to make sure I experience and remember everything." Those are the words of astronaut Luca Parmitano, remembering his final moments before the fateful spacewalk that almost saw him ...

On July 16, NASA cut short a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station after Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano ... the feeling of being blind and drowning in the blackness of space.