{"id":19523,"date":"2015-12-21T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacewalkers-free-up-jammed-rail-car-get-set-for-russian-cargo-delivery\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:35:01","slug":"spacewalkers-free-up-jammed-rail-car-get-set-for-russian-cargo-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacewalkers-free-up-jammed-rail-car-get-set-for-russian-cargo-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacewalkers free up jammed rail car, get set for Russian cargo delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_218705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218705\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-218705\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-spacewalk-630x355.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Kopra at space station\" width=\"630\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-spacewalk-630x355.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-spacewalk-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-spacewalk.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-218705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronaut Tim Kopra conducts a spacewalk at the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two NASA spacewalkers executed a quick fix at the International Space Station today, moving a stuck rail car to clear the path&nbsp;for a robotic Russian cargo ship that was launched just hours before.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-hour, 16-minute spacewalk was put on the schedule just last week, when mission controllers discovered that the robotic rail car on the station\u2019s&nbsp;main&nbsp;truss was jammed on the track, 4 inches (10 centimeters) out of position.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra had to release the brake handles on the crew equipment carts on each side of the rail car to move it to its storage spot. NASA wanted the car locked down properly as a precaution in advance of Wednesday\u2019s scheduled arrival of a Russian Progress cargo craft.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218720\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-218720 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-launch-630x586.jpg\" alt=\"Progress launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-launch-630x586.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151221-launch.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-218720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending a robotic Progress cargo ship toward the International Space Station. The shipment arrives Wednesday. (Credit: Energia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Progress was launched without a hitch from Russia\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 2:44 p.m. local time (12:44 a.m. PT). It\u2019s carrying about 3 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the crew.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Kopra freed up the rail car so quickly that they could take on some \u201cget-ahead\u201d tasks, including routing cables&nbsp;that eventually will connect to&nbsp;a new docking adapter and a Russian laboratory module.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Tim Kopra conducts a spacewalk at the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA TV) Two NASA spacewalkers executed a quick fix at the International Space Station today, moving a stuck rail car to clear the path&nbsp;for a robotic Russian cargo ship that was launched just hours before. The 3-hour, 16-minute spacewalk was put on [&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":[717,190],"class_list":["post-19523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523"}],"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=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}