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I went digging because I was confused about that too, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Parmitano#Expedition_36/3...

> Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit's filters, causing water from the suit's cooling system to back up.

So one of the failure scenarios didn't behave well in zero gravity, I think that's (more) reasonable.



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