Tag: Spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov took this photo of Scott Kelly exiting the space station’s Quest airlock at the start of Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: Sergey Volkov/Roscosmos Space station commander Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren carried out a tedious seven-hour 16-minute spacewalk Wednesday, installing cables needed for a new docking…

  • Station astronauts gearing up for spacewalk Wednesday

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Scott Kelly tries on his spacesuit during preparations for Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Expedition 45 commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are readying equipment and reviewing procedures for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Wednesday outside the International Space Station. The major goals of the excursion are to…

  • Astronauts munch on space-grown lettuce

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Amid a Russian spacewalk to carry out routine maintenance and inspections outside the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts and a Japanese crewmate staged a culinary first in orbit — harvesting and eating a few leaves of leafy, space-grown red romaine lettuce. Astronaut Scott Kelly later tweeted the…

  • NASA marks 50th anniversary of first spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Ed White stepped outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 3, 1965, for the first U.S. spacewalk. Credit: NASA/Jim McDivitt Two-and-a-half months after cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first human to walk in space, NASA astronaut Ed White floated out of his cramped Gemini 4 capsule 50…

  • Astronauts install antennas for commercial crew capsules

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts outside the International Space Station on Sunday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Terry Virts and space station commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore ventured back outside Sunday for their third spacewalk in eight days to complete initial preparations for upcoming dockings by commercially developed…

  • NASA approves Sunday spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION   International Space Station managers Friday cleared astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts to proceed with a third spacewalk Sunday, as originally planned, after concluding a small amount of water in Virts’ space helmet after an EVA Wednesday was an understood condition and…

  • Successful spacewalk ends with water leak

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts blows on a bubble of water that seeped into his helmet after Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday for the second of three spacewalks to help ready the lab…

  • Photos from this weekend’s spacewalk

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    Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Saturday, running more than 300 feet of wiring that will eventually be connected to new docking ports to receive commercial spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX. Expedition 42 crew commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts, both veteran space shuttle pilots, spent nearly seven…

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Terry Virts (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) work outside the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Saturday and installed wiring needed for two new docking mechanisms that will be…

  • Russian cosmonauts wrap up successful spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev inside his Orlan spacesuit before the start of Wednesday’s spacewalk. Photo credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst Two cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Wednesday, jettisoning three no-longer-needed components and carrying out a photo survey of the Russian segment of the lab complex in the…