Tag: Spacewalk

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Shane Kimbrough, left, maneuvers a battery adapter plate into position at the base of a space station solar array while Thomas Pesquet holds an aging nickel-hydrogen battery that later was mounted atop the plate. Credit: NASA TV Two space station astronauts carried out a trouble-free five-hour 58-minute spacewalk…

Video highlight reel of Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Thomas Pesquet conducting six-hour spacewalk on Jan. 13.

This is a narrated animation previewing the steps and activities to be performed by the International Space Station astronauts during the battery replacement spacewalk on Jan. 13.

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two astronauts plan to venture outside the International Space Station Friday, taking over from earlier robotic arm operations to help replace a set of batteries used to store power from one of the lab’s four sets of solar arrays. The goal is to replace 12 aging nickel-hydrogen batteries…

Video highlight reel of Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Peggy Whitson conducting six-hour 32-minute spacewalk on Jan. 6.

This is a narrated animation previewing the steps and activities to be performed by the International Space Station astronauts during the battery replacement spacewalk on Jan. 6.

From the Johnson Space Center in Houston, officials from NASA brief reporters on two upcoming spacewalks outside the International Space Station to replace aging batteries in the outpost’s power grid.