Sentences with phrase «during spacewalks»

Some of those microbes, swabbed near vents during spacewalks, were not found on the spacecraft's exterior when it launched.

Its morphing design means it should be less unwieldy than today's suits and allow astronauts to be more efficient, both during spacewalks and in planetary exploration, Jacobs told the...

Scott Kelly poses for the camera during a spacewalk on Dec. 21, 2015.

In «Gasp,» Hadfield describes a frightening moment during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station when his eyes watered.

David Scott (American, b. 1932) Russell Schweickart taking a photograph during his spacewalk, Apollo 9, March 1969.

Not exact matches

Buoyed by a jet - propelled backpack, Bruce McCandless II ventures far off into space during the first untethered spacewalk in February 1984.

The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.

Ronald Garan, Jr. is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA during four spacewalks.

When their shuttle is destroyed during a routine spacewalk, a veteran astronaut and a brilliant engineer are stranded in space together.

The solution may lie in «throwing» the unit: during a forthcoming spacewalk, three astronauts, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and American astronaut Clay Anderson, plan on releasing the EAS from the station's surface and using a robot arm to give it a «good shove.»