Tag: EVA
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Students team up with NASA to tests tools for Artemis
Student teams from around the country have partnered with NASA to test prototype tools for upcoming Artemis missions. This week, students remotely directed divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab to test their designs, which addressed a variety of NASA’s needs through the Micro-g NExT program. This year’s testing was impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Spacewalkers prep space station for future upgrades
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken completed a 5-hour, 29-minute spacewalk today to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades.READ MORE: https://t.co/2F2xvbK3GT pic.twitter.com/Db4VnRiXYa — Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 21, 2020 Space station commander Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken floated back outside Tuesday for their fourth spacewalk in…
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Spacewalkers prep space station for future upgrades
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken completed a 5-hour, 29-minute spacewalk today to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades.READ MORE: https://t.co/2F2xvbK3GT pic.twitter.com/Db4VnRiXYa — Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 21, 2020 Space station commander Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken floated back outside Tuesday for their fourth spacewalk in…
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ISS crew complete Station battery upgrade spacewalk
Expedition 63 Commander Christopher Cassidy and Joint Operations Commander Robert Behnken, both NASA astronauts, completed the three and a half year process of upgrading the International Space Station’s power systems during a spacewalk on July 21st. The spacewalk, designated US EVA-68, marked the 10th EVA for both astronauts, who have each accumulated over 50 hours…
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Astronauts complete second spacewalk of ISS battery replacement efforts
Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken have completed the second in a series of four spacewalks, or EVAs, that will complete replacement of the last set of Station batteries, which were delivered to the outpost in May on the Japan HTV-9 cargo vehicle. Three years ago, NASA began the effort to replace all of the Station’s…
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NASA/ESA complete challenging Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer repair
NASA and ESA have concluded a series of four spacewalks to repair the Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment. NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano completed the series with the AMS deemed to be in good health. Never designed to be serviceable after it was installed outside the Station in…
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Multi-spacewalk series to replace Station batteries completed
As has been the process since 2017, the U.S. segment crew aboard the International Space Station worked through a marathon series of five spacewalks to change out another subset of batteries aboard the Station’s Integrated Truss Structure. The first spacewalk (EVA-56) kick-started the series, although a third EVA was delayed until January 15 after the…
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Failed Battery Charge/Discharge Unit replacement complete during historic EVA
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Dr. Jessica Meir exited the International Space Station to begin an Extravehicular Activity – EVA, or spacewalk – on Friday that largely saw the duo replace a failed Battery Charge/Discharge Unit on the Station’s P6 truss structure. The unit failed to reactivate after the first two of a five spacewalk…
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Alexei Leonov, space artist and pioneer, dies at 85
The first person to create art in space, the first person to perform a spacewalk and leave the confined safety of a spacecraft in orbit, the Commander of the first international mission in space history, and the last surviving cosmonaut of the Voskhod era has died at the age of 85. Alexei Leonov was a…
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ISS Particle Hunter to receive new life through upcoming spacewalks
For over eight years a small scientific instrument, perched atop of the International Space Station’s S3 truss segment, has been hunting for cosmic particles that have traveled from the furthest reaches of the universe. An upcoming set of spacewalks is set to extend its lifetime. The $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 2 (AMS-02) launched aboard…