Tag: Spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov prepare for Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly Two veteran cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Wednesday, swapped out materials science space exposure samples, installed handrails needed for future spacewalks and tested an applicator and thin-film coatings that could prove useful reconditioning…

  • Spacewalk terminated due to spacesuit water leak

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Tim Peake is seen outside the International Space Station during Friday’s spacewalk. Flight controllers ordered two astronauts to terminate a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Friday after one of them reported a small amount of water leaking into his space helmet. While not nearly as dangerous…

  • Astronauts to repair station electrical circuit on Friday spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA Two space station astronauts are gearing up for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Friday to replace a presumably shorted out solar array voltage regulator that knocked one of the lab’s eight power channels out of action late last year. They also plan to finish up ongoing work…

  • Astronauts to repair station electrical circuit on Friday spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA Two space station astronauts are gearing up for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Friday to replace a presumably shorted out solar array voltage regulator that knocked one of the lab’s eight power channels out of action late last year. They also plan to finish up ongoing work…

  • Successful spacewalk frees up robot arm transporter

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake tweeted this photo of one of the spacewalkers inside the space station’s Quest airlock. Credit: NASA/ESA/Tim Peake Space station commander Scott Kelly and newly-arrived flight engineer Tim Kopra ventured outside the lab complex Monday and freed up a stalled robot arm-carrying transporter…

  • Successful spacewalk frees up robot arm transporter

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake tweeted this photo of one of the spacewalkers inside the space station’s Quest airlock. Credit: NASA/ESA/Tim Peake Space station commander Scott Kelly and newly-arrived flight engineer Tim Kopra ventured outside the lab complex Monday and freed up a stalled robot arm-carrying transporter…

  • Unscheduled spacewalk on tap Monday

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An unexpected, quickly-planned spacewalk is on tap Monday to troubleshoot a problem preventing the International Space Station’s robot arm transporter from reaching a worksite where it can be locked down, a requirement before a Russian Progress cargo ship can dock later in the week. The Progress MS-01/62P supply…

  • Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs

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    Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions. NASA has released pictures from the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 spacewalks showing Kelly and Lindgren snapping space selfies and working near…

  • Spacewalkers reconfigure station cooling system

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly, in an all-white spacesuit, is camouflaged against the space station’s structure in this picture taken during Friday’s spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Credit: Sergey Volkov/Roscosmos Space station commander Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren carried out a busy but mostly trouble-free spacewalk Friday, routing ammonia…

  • Kelly, Lindgren set for second spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly is pictured outside the International Space Station during an Oct. 28 spacewalk. Credit: NASA Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are gearing up for their second spacewalk in nine days Friday, a planned six-and-a-half-hour excursion to reconfigure the ammonia cooling system…