Jerome Apt

Jerome Apt

An astronaut named Jerome Apt once punctured his spacesuit while on a spacewalk and didn't even notice. When a metal bar punctured the glove, the skin of the astronaut’s hand partially sealed the opening. He bled into space, and at the same time his coagulating blood sealed the opening enough that the bar was retained inside the hole.

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