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Following the successful completion of Saturday's spacewalk, NASA delayed the next planned excursion from Monday to Tuesday (Dec. 24). The extra day will allow time to resize a spare spacesuit for Rick Mastracchio. During repressurization of the station's airlock following Saturday's spacewalk, a spacesuit configuration issue put the suit Mastracchio was wearing in question for the next outing. Astronaut Koichi Wakata reported the issue to the ground during the airlock's repressurization. "EV1 [Mastracchio] inadvertently moved the water switch [on his suit] to on and it was quickly returned to off," Wakata told Mission Control. During a later call up to the station's crew, flight controllers expressed concern about the "water in the sumblimator" in Mastracchio's suit, and sent up procedures to dry it out. According to NASA, this issue is not related to the helmet water leak that cut short a spacewalk in July. Due to the slip, if a third spacewalk is needed to complete the repair of the space station's cooling system, it will now take place no sooner than Dec. 26, rather than Christmas Day, as originally scheduled.
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