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    I nearly drowned inside my space suit
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano spent five months on board the International Space Station. One of his duties was to carry out space walks outside the station to perform essential repairs. On one of these Luca realised something was terribly wrong.
(Picture: Luca Parmitano during a space walk
Picture credit: ESA/NASA)
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