{"id":11504,"date":"2021-08-24T22:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-station-spacewalk-postponed-by-astronaut-medical-issue\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T22:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:13:20","slug":"space-station-spacewalk-postponed-by-astronaut-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-station-spacewalk-postponed-by-astronaut-medical-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Space station spacewalk postponed by astronaut medical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53046\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53046\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vandehei1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vandehei1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vandehei1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vandehei1-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vandehei1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station Tuesday was postponed after NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei was diagnosed with a pinched nerve, which NASA described as a \u201cminor medical issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vande Hei planned to head outside the space station Tuesday with Japanese crewmade Akihiko Hoshide for a nearly seven-hour spacewalk to install a support bracket and modification kit that will enable the attachment of upgraded solar arrays set to arrive on a future cargo mission.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts also planned to replace a floating point measurement unit, a device that measures the electrical charging potential of the space station solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>NASA announced the postponement of the spacewalk Monday, describing Vande Hei\u2019s condition as a \u201cminor medical issue\u201d and not a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The spacewalk is not time-sensitive and crew members are continuing to move forward with other station work and activities,\u201d NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said managers are evaluating the next opportunity to conduct the spacewalk, following the launch and docking of a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship this weekend, and two Russian spacewalks scheduled in early September.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet Tuesday, Vande Hei said he has a pinched nerve in his neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for everyone\u2019s concern,\u201d Vande Hei tweeted. \u201cI have a pinched nerve in my neck that caused us to reschedule today\u2019s spacewalk. The support from family, friends, and NASA leadership has been fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to installing this IROSA Mod kit,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cToday just wasn\u2019t the right day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vande Hei, 54, is flying on his second space mission. He launched April aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with commander Oleg Novitskiy and flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov.&nbsp;Vande Hei is scheduled to remain at the space station until March, when he will return to Earth on a Soyuz capsule.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station Tuesday was postponed after NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei was diagnosed with a pinched nerve, which NASA described as a \u201cminor medical issue.\u201d Vande Hei planned to head outside the space station Tuesday with Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}