What It'd Be Like To Drown In Space

Water doesn't fill a helmet so much as attempt to choke the life out of you. The horrifying behind-the-scenes, below. Two weeks ago, we were impressed by how calm ground control stayed when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet sprung a water leak. Now, after watching this video of astronaut Chris Cassidy explaining how a leaky helmet behaves in space, we're amazed. In zero gravity, water doesn't behave anything like it does on Earth. Parmitano's helmet sprung a leak in the rear, behind his ...