Sentences with phrase «shuttle spacewalk»
There are Kevlar tires, more than a dozen interlocking communication systems and a cockpit designed by Story Musgrave, who performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger's first flight.
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Flying aboard the space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour, Reilly amassed more than 853 hours in space and completed five spacewalks before his 2008 retirement from NASA.
The highlight of any shuttle mission is the spacewalk: glamorous, dangerous, and oh so photogenic.
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.
In a May space shuttle mission to Hubble, spacewalking astronauts completed a slew of repairs and upgrades to the 19 - year - old observatory, including replacing the telescope's workhorse camera with an enhanced successor, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
A series of corrective mirrors were fixed to the telescope in an unprecedented series of five spacewalks in a single space shuttle flight.
A Shuttle - Mir veteran and a spacewalking virtuoso will join the ranks of other spaceflight legends on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3, at the Kennedy Space Center -LSB-...]
A British and American joint shuttle mission (aboard the shuttle Churchill) is up above the earths atmosphere doing research on the comet when they notice something weird clinging onto the front of it and they get a radar readout and see that it is a craft of some sort, the crew is able to get the shuttle close enough to do a spacewalk and investigate the craft and Col. Tom Carlsen takes his crew into an open spot and sees hundreds of dead bat like creatures, and they have been drained of all of their fluids.
When their shuttle is destroyed during a routine spacewalk, a veteran astronaut and a brilliant engineer are stranded in space together.
Astronauts use white spacesuits when they go on spacewalks to do work outside the space shuttle or International Space Station.
In 2001, aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks — the first Canadian to do so — and in 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so far.